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Composer Quotes by Raymond Scott
- Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit alone on the…
- The composer must bear in mind that the radio listener does not hear music directly. He hears it only after the sound has passed through…
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- The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. — Ansel Adams
- 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
- I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it. — Sarah Brightman
- I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to… — Sarah Brightman
- The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime… — Benjamin Britten
- When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms.… — Dave Brubeck
- Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. — Pablo Casals
- I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out… — Tori Amos
- That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want… — David Amram