Composer Quote by Gyorgy Ligeti Download Open image “I think a composer is always interested in his last work.” — Gyorgy Ligeti ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composer Lasts Thinking Work
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead. — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must find a… — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years. — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter. — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect. — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him. — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to… — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer. — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose… — Gyorgy Ligeti 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
