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Composer Quotes by Daniel Handler
- Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!
- The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly, and…
- Composer†is a word which here means “a person who sits in a room, muttering and humming and figuring out what notes the orchestra is…
More Composer Quotes
- To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be,… — Dirk Benedict
- Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. — Hector Berlioz
- I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. — Leonard Bernstein
- Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the… — Johannes Brahms
- That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want… — David Amram
- The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach… — Ernest Newman
- The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. — Ernest Newman
- The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. — Ansel Adams