Adherence Quote by Kate Smith

To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.

— Gustav Mahler

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to…

— Daniel Barenboim

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

Sincerity w the most compendious wisdom, an excellent instrument for the speedy despatch of business. It creates confidence in those we have to deal…

— Lord Chesterfield

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

— Confucius

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak

— Michael Bolton

The model of a composer.

— Benjamin Britten

It's the vision of the composer that we have to determine, and not the absolute mathematical adherence of the score. In my experience, there…

— Marc-Andre Hamelin

I'm not really a professional composer; I just compose now and then when someone asks me to.

— Stephen Hough

It should be a singer's quality to know what a composer wants and sing accordingly.

— Jeet Gannguli

“You should all know how to read music. It's as basic to understanding the composer's reaction as knowing how to read words on a…

— Jennifer Laurens