Composer Quote by John Philip Sousa Download Open image “Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.” — John Philip Sousa ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad Sounds Composer Composers Composers People Good music Music Music Bad People Song Sound
I've always said there aren't great composers- there are great songs. — Vicente Fernandez Copy Share Image
Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself. — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music. — Pepe Romero Copy Share Image
Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t. — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America. — Gail Zappa 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 best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am happy now, to recall that I was no only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Dance as though know one is watching Love as though you've never been hurt Sing as though no one can hear you Live as… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
“Nations will seldom obtain good national anthems by offering prizes for them. The man and the occasion must meet.” — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music. — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. — John Philip Sousa 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
