Composer Quote by Ralph Vaughan Williams Download Open image “A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation.” — Ralph Vaughan Williams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composer Musical Nations Supreme
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds. — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
The Music is the only corporeal introduction to the superior world of Knowledge. — Ludwig van Beethoven 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
A musician's true talent is only tested through background music. — Anirudh Ravichander Copy Share Image
A thousand composers couldn't create a soundtrack as lovely as your voice. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be a composer, you have to be a die-hard music lover - which I am. — Devi Sri Prasad Copy Share Image
Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself. — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
But it can be tough for new composers as directors tend to block you out. — M. Jayachandran Copy Share Image
I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music. — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there. — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it. — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins. — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation. — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound. — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
There [is] a feeling of recognition, as of meeting an old friend, which comes to us all in the face of great artistic experiences.… — Ralph Vaughan Williams 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... I'm bragging." (Dialogue with his mother before leaving for Vienna)” — George Enescu Copy Share
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 sing. No one would cast a dancing part with someone who cannot dance sufficiently to come up to professional standards. The same is true of acting. But when it comes to singing, more often than not… — Ernest Gold Copy Share
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 fall into that too! I learned that in graduate school. You just talk about your music in a specific way, and that separates people from you. But some composers like that. Schoenberg liked that. He wanted… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share
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
![“There [is] a feeling of recognition, as of meeting an old friend, which comes to us all in the face of great artistic experiences. I had the same experience when I first heard an English folksong, when I first saw Michelangelo's Day and Night, when I suddenly came upon Stonehenge or had my first…” quote by Ralph Vaughan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6b3/ralph-vaughan-williams-24520_artistic_there-is-a-feeling-of-recognition-as-of_1532348.jpg)
