Composers Quotes

151 quotes by 123 authors

Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon. — Tom Robbins
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and… — David Mitchell
As to...old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure feeling. And you… — C.S. Lewis
Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely… — Jonny Greenwood
My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination… — Ben van Berkel
Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60. — A. R. Rahman
The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather… — Steven Price
Composers and lyricists are not responsible for storyline and casting. One can imagine actors shouldering this responsibility, since they charge for half the film. But… — Shaan
Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors. — Shaan
It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers or… — Robert Coppola Schwartzman
Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is… — Karen DeCrow
So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was… — Robert Morris
All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense. — James Tenney
I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that. — John Eaton
Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers. — John Eaton
Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun… — Brian Ferneyhough
Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally. — Ken Hill
But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our… — Michael Tilson Thomas
The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on… — Gunther Schuller
You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life. — Mstislav Rostropovich

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