Composer Quotes

392 quotes by 291 authors

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own! — Frederic Chopin
The model of a composer. — Benjamin Britten
Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise. — Dmitri Shostakovich
It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and… — Marlene Dietrich
I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material… — Fred Frith
I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena. — Edgard Varese
My main concern is if this composer has been made aware of the fact that I've come clean in all of my cases. I killed… — Aileen Wuornos
The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living… — Michael Tilson Thomas
I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia… — Walter Savage Landor
It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or… — George Santayana
It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of… — Anais Nin
All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique. — George Gershwin
The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous… — John Corigliano
Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with… — Fernand Point
I came across a lot of young composers who have got passion but lack experience. I want to help them out. — Sukhwinder Singh
I'm blessed to be working with wizards like Vishal Bhardwaj as well as many young composers. — Sukhwinder Singh
I have declared that I will work free of cost with those composers who are passionate about their work. Sohail Sen is one such lad,… — Sukhwinder Singh
To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer. — Paul Thomas Anderson
I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like… — Richard Rodney Bennett

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