Composers Quotes

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Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and… — Johannes Brahms
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. — Pablo Casals
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. — Unknown Author
The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play… — Alan Watts
All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters of their art.… — Corinne Heline
But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in… — Warren Zevon
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot… — Eric Hoffer
The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance. — Ansel Adams
When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances… — Michael Bolton
Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesnâ€™t. — Aaron Copland
Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's… — Claude Debussy
The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not… — Sergei Rachmaninoff
With the new technology that keeps entering the media, film composers are constantly being placed in new learning situations. Acknowledging this and realizing that one… — Henry Mancini
Composers combine notes, that's all. — Igor Stravinsky
Good composers don't borrow, they steal — Igor Stravinsky
I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided… — Zoltan Kodaly
I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the… — Maurice Ravel
Every piece of music is a form of personal expression for its creator...If a work doesnt express the composers own personal point of view, his… — Dmitri Shostakovich
Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued. — Thomas Beecham
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now. — Neville Marriner

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