Composer Quote by Louise Talma

Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.

— George Gershwin

If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing…

— Jean-Jacques Nattiez

Composers are very individual creatures.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

It's so interesting, you know, whenever you read the accounts of composers playing their own music, that they had very different priorities than performers.…

— Helene Grimaud

Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our…

— George Crumb

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be…

— Charles Ives

“It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that…

— Louisa May Alcott

Some directors can become concerned when it comes to music, because it's the end of the process and they're tired. They're worried that the…

— Alexandre Desplat

Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all,…

— Claude Debussy

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.

— Aaron Copland

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

— Derek Bailey

“He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that…

— E.M. Forster