Composer Quote by Michala Petri Download Open image “Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.” — Michala Petri ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composer Instruments Music Music making Term Thinking
Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t. — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds. — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
I've always said there aren't great composers- there are great songs. — Vicente Fernandez 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
Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas. — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra. — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
When you think about a composer you know like Wagner or Pier Boulez or something like that most of the issues a composer is… — DJ Spooky 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
I think that today, in Europe at least, people don't tend to think so much about the instrument that is producing the music; they… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
I have always personally preferred to think of what is more difficult for my instrument, and not what is the most natural or the… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
Denmark is, of course is very much like Germany: in terms of culture, the same kind of thinking, etc. — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
When I was very young, Denmark was a very small country, and we still are, but it was then very provincial and everybody knew… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
Many people used to call me a child prodigy, but I never thought that. I knew that I had learned everything, that I had… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
I've always been very inspired by people who can make their instrument sound very natural. — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
It is not very natural to make dynamic changes with the recorder. When you play a long note and want to make a diminuendo,… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
You need to express things stronger today, more so than in the Baroque time, and you need to expand the expressiveness of the instrument. — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
If you ask me about music and how things should be played, I believe that music-making is the combination of having learned how to… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
In contemporary music, the challenge for me is to make the recorder sound as naturally expressive as, for example, the violin - without doing… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
To me, the advantage of the recorder is that it is so natural. I love the fact that it is just a piece of… — Michala Petri 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
