Composer Quote by Charles Mingus Download Open image “I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.” — Charles Mingus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composer Jazz Music Spontaneous Wanted
Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.' — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer. — Mitch Leigh Copy Share Image
I often wonder if I was destined to be a composer. I think I decided and I followed my star. — Peter Sculthorpe Copy Share Image
I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally. — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt? — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus. — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music. — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
I've got a feeling that, if it's so easy for you, the struggle and the initiative are not as strong as they are for… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
That sound in tune to you? Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I'm playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told us you… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
Our nights didn't begin until after noon. Because in the old days, you'd start Birdland at 8:30 or 9 pm and play until 4… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
“Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.” — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
I always thought that no matter what kind of work people did, they should involve themselves totally with all the discrimination they ran into. — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
I was born swinging and clapped my hands in church as a little boy, but I've grown up and I like to do things… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated… — Hanns Eisler Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and wild. He's… — Michael Brecker Copy Share Image
“- Mom, can I tell them there that I'm Romanian? - Sure, why not tell them? - I was thinking that they wouldn't think...… — George Enescu Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to… — Ernest Gold Copy Share Image
I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people. And I… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer. — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
A mission that comes from the heart to promote these things and to encourage composers to write, then of course they should do it.… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
