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- Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.
- A review of his work: His music soon spread throughout Europe, and he was invited to America were he performed the Piano Concerto. He would…
- Criticism will survive even if no one's paying for it. Obviously it's better if people are paying for it. But the fact that artists weren't…
- If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all consist of unmeaning…
- Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their…
- Three of tonights performers are members of the group Return To One, whose album Hopes and Dreams I heard for the first time a couple…
- Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to sing.…
- The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me.
- I'm a fanatic about Irish music. I love its moody, modal and timeless quality. I'm different from some other composers, because I don't look at…
- I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.
- The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence.
- If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the…
- To talk about communication theory without communicating its real mathematical content would be like endlessly telling a man about a wonderful composer, yet never letting…
- It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of…
- The person you care for most is the composer of your emotional symphony
- A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.
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
- I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it. — Sarah Brightman
- 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
- Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in… — Jean Genet