Composers Quotes

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Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for… — Carla Bley
Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time. — Gavin Bryars
Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers… — George Crumb
I have tremendous respect for film composers. — John Corigliano
The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision. — Stewart Copeland
My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in… — Jane Campion
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries. — Brian Ferneyhough
A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial… — Tom Glazer
I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers… — Charlie Haden
I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups. — David Del Tredici
[Composers] Mark [Shaiman] and Scott [Wittman] are unreal — Megan Hilty
Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual. — Aldous Huxley
Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds of… — Paul Theroux
Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer have… — Clement Greenberg
I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do… — Benjamin Britten
A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile… — Itay Talgam
The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins. — Hans von Bulow
My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in… — Evelyn Glennie
A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos. — Evelyn Glennie

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