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- You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!
- The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living…
- 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…
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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… — Johannes Brahms
- All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters… — Corinne Heline
- But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the… — Warren Zevon
- I'm a fanatic about Irish music. I love its moody, modal and timeless quality. I'm different from some other composers, because I… — Unknown Author
- The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use… — John Corigliano
- The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better… — Jerome Kern
- I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you… — Antonio Damasio
- What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything… — Robert Moog