Composer Quote by Kate Smith Download Open image “I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.” — Kate Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composer Ideas Respect
When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment. — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
Whatever I gain from writing lyrics, I feel I lose a little bit for the musical aspect by having that lyrical burden on me.… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
I can admire music where you feel the composer has everything organized and perfectly shaped, but it doesn't touch me. I like to feel… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
The artist must yield himself to his own inspiration... I should compose with utter confidence a subject that set my musical blood going, even… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting… — Ian Anderson 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
Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
When you work with a good composer, you don't tell him what to write. If he knows your playing, he will do what he… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
I love animals to the extent that my home is my dog's home! Which means that nothing is too good for my Freckles-chairs, couches,… — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
And when all is said and done, there is no greater success in the world than just being happy. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy… — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight. — Kate Smith 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
