Composers Quotes

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Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. — Brian Greene
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge. — Brian Greene
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. — Howard Dietz
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers… — Brian Eno
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30%… — Brian Eno
I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie. — Unknown Author
Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good… — James Fenton
I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive. — Marvin Hamlisch
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself… — Jascha Heifetz
Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked. — Judy Holliday
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also. — Yo-Yo Ma
There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling. — Harold Prince
I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I… — Harold Prince
When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists. — Andres Segovia
Sincere composers believe in God. — John Philip Sousa
Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of… — Twyla Tharp
I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I… — Warren Zevon
Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields - uses of… — Geoff Mulgan
Since music is a reflection of our mindset and our culture, it is bound to change with time. I am glad that India is such… — Sonu Nigam
Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest… — Robert Schumann

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