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I'm not an intellectual composer.
Les Baxter
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Les Baxter
American
Musician
Born:
Mar 14
,
1922
Died:
Jan 15
,
1996
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,
Intellectual
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Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.
David Bowie
Music
God
Writing
Musical
Reclaim
Those
Composer
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Unspeakable
Like
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Exist
Very
Effort
Being
Information
Notes
Searching
Things
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.
Jascha Heifetz
Myself
Writing
First
Secondly
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Composers
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Contemporary
Occasionally
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Beethoven
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The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
Ansel Adams
Negative
Ways
Composer
Performance
Print
Score
Subtle
Comparable
Each
Differs
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
Charles Kettering
Man
Opportunities
Few
Imagination
Thousand
Composer
Ten
Only
Limited
His
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
Igor Stravinsky
Work
Time
Will
Later
Composer
About
He
Knows
Always
Real
His
Whole
Suddenly
Aware
Conscious
Thinks
Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.
Anton Rubinstein
Me
Think
Composer
Composers
Pianist
Reactionary
Call
A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express different storytelling ideas.
Howard Shore
Music
Picture
Ways
Composer
Ideas
Does
Lot
Different
Storytelling
Express
Different Ways
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky
Good
Imitate
Composer
Steals
He
Does
I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work. What I've sought there is instruction, variation from the demands of film and relief from its restrictions.
John Williams
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Composer
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Restrictions
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Part
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