Composer Quote by Leo Ornstein Download Open image “It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.” — Leo Ornstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composer Mean Play
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
It's really been enlightening for me to work with composers because I used to think that everything in the music was exactly what the… — Hilary Hahn 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
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
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
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
What happens with a good score is, somehow the composer manages to cast himself or herself in the role of the protagonist. And then… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t. — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Every piece of music is a form of personal expression for its creator...If a work doesnt express the composers own personal point of view,… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide. — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat. — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear. — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There’s no specific… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really… — Leo Ornstein 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
