Quotes by Composers

Nobody plans on playing their own songs in front of thousands of people. Bryce Dessner
People Own Thousands Thousands Of People Songs Nobody Front Plans Playing
When I'm writing for certain instruments, you want to write within what you know about that instrument but also challenge the player. Something like 'Aheym' is very virtuosic - but because I have a history of performing music, I don't like unplayable music. Bryce Dessner
Music History You Writing Challenge About Something Write Performing Like Know Also Instrument Instruments Because Within Very Want Certain Player
It doesn't necessarily take four years to write a good piece of music. It might take four hours. It just depends on when your inspiration comes. Bryce Dessner
Music Good Inspiration Write Take Hours Piece Years Just Depends Might Your Four Necessarily
I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies. Bryce Dessner
Love Dancers Objects Physicality Like Instruments Bodies
Playing pentatonic scales over orchestral music is not something I want to do or listen to. Bryce Dessner
Music Scales Something Over Listen Orchestral Want Playing
I can imagine myself as an old man writing music for choir or orchestra. I don't know that I'll be touring six months out of the year in a rock band when I'm 60. Bryce Dessner
Music Myself Man Writing Old Year Band Months Out Touring Know Rock Rock Band Six Orchestra Old Man Choir Imagine
The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important. Burt Bacharach
Music Important Thinking About Order Now Right Thing Last
A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't. Burt Bacharach
You Small Small Town Town Go Where Place
I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'. Burt Bacharach
Me You Met Thinking Dre See Some About Give He Come Talked Loops Said His Up Little Next Dr Album
Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn. Burt Bacharach
Smartest Knowing Learn Leave May Anyone Thing
I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls. Burt Bacharach
School Girl Alienated Never Well Felt Did
What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently. Carl Maria von Weber
Love Music Man Love Is Passion Language Men Feeling Single Changes Ways Though Possible Thousand Thousands Purest Only Color Instance True Feel Most Understood Itself Arts Mankind Who Showing Differently
Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play. Carl Orff
Time You Heart Will Beginning Would Find Rather Study Since Liked Mastered Learn Child Children While Them Much Interests Play
People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses. Carlisle Floyd
People Fall High Weaknesses High Places Factor Because Always Surprised Very Places Flawed Therefore Element Suddenly Basic Humans
What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds. Carlisle Floyd
Music Natural Kind Diverse Particular Come Particular Set Most Comfort Answer Sounds Vernacular American Which Regional American Music Across Satisfying Set
The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons. Carlisle Floyd
Success Me Man Destroyed Willie Possibly Tackling Could Because Demons His Personal Want Story Who Fascinated Stark
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist. Carlisle Floyd
Worship Uncomfortable Tends Put Talent Because America Artist Modest Us Position
I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last. Carlisle Floyd
Will Think Honestly Possible Directly Anything Expressed Last
I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references. Carlisle Floyd
Music Unless Out Would Would-Be Folk Write Never Know Obvious References American American Music Appalachian Set
If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so. Carlisle Floyd
Say Would Come Operas Felt Off Did Certainly
It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else. Carlisle Floyd
Art Me Else Relevant Seems Opera Just Anything Anything Else Expressive
I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period. Carlisle Floyd
Time People Resolved Unorthodox Seemingly Investigate Period Salem Going Interested Really Treatment
Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations. Carlisle Floyd
Other Dramatic Characters Charged Composer Vivid Highly Contains Like Opera Because Subject Any Situations Choose Reasons
There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music. Carlisle Floyd
Music Wife Society Bacon Kind Some He Performance Know Wrote His Gets Which Fostered Fourth
It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience. Carlisle Floyd
Work Music Me People Amazing Will First Lose Young Other Say Sight Composers Write Generations Instead Come Like First Things Audience How Being Want Gaining Who Credentials Fast Things Rejected
Opera is given so little attention in the national press. Carlisle Floyd
National Press Given Attention Opera Little Little Attention
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