Composer Quote by Harrison Birtwistle Download Open image “The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.” — Harrison Birtwistle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composer Influence Names
I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background. — Alex Prager Copy Share Image
See, as a music composer, I am not competing with any music composer. — Ankit Tiwari 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
Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself. — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box,… — Cliff Martinez Copy Share Image
Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer. — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
I've had so many different influences musically, even from people who aren't even musicians. If you're inspired by someone and you document it musically,… — Mark Salling Copy Share Image
I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Speaking for myself I have influenced with lots of John Coltrane, Van Morrison, Joanna Newsom, Mississippi Records compilations, Simon & Garfunkel, Duncan Browne, Judee… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out… — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page,… — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five… — Harrison Birtwistle 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