Composer Quote by Richard Strauss Download Open image “I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.” — Richard Strauss ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composer May Second rate
See, as a music composer, I am not competing with any music composer. — Ankit Tiwari 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
I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
I'm not really a professional composer; I just compose now and then when someone asks me to. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a… — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play. — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm. — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch? — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect. — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end. — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too loud. — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen. — Richard Strauss 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
