Composer Quotes

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. Frank Zappa
Musicians Will Forcing Air Composer Guy Around His Goes Often Molecules Who Assistance
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 Similar Unspeakable Like Pieces 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 Composer Composers More Remind Contemporary Occasionally How How Much Discourage Beethoven Any Much Reasons Works Play Two Appreciate
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
Work Relief Composer Variation Restrictions Small Small Part Part Demands Pieces Instruction Concert Sought Been Done Frustrated Film
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. Leonard Bernstein
Composer Having Like Sound Itself Orchestra Want Not Interested Interested
If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer. Steven Spielberg
Director Would Composer Were Want Film
I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive. Yann Tiersen
Way Compose Composer Record More Instinctive Opposite Just Working Actually
The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries. A. R. Rahman
Freedom Creative Challenge Those Possible Scared Composer Composers More Take Studio Put Boundaries Budget Like Within Dollars Score Existing Expect Get Hits Wallpaper Any Movie Biggest Biggest Challenge Hollywood Successful Producers Less Copy
Generally, as a composer, it's perceived as an employer-employee relationship. Adrian Younge
Relationship Composer Perceived Generally
The 'Story of Silent Night', which was given to me one Christmas when I was six - it was the story of a down and out composer who had no ideas left, and it was Christmas, and he came up with the hymn 'Silent Night.' Adriana Trigiani
Christmas Me Down Out Silent Composer Given Hymn Had He Ideas Came Left Up Six Story Which Who Night
I was always a composer since I was a kid, but the BMI Workshop is where the networking really all stems from. So many writers and influences and ways of communicating all sprang out of the time I was a member of that workshop. Alan Menken
Time Kid Ways Member Out Composer Networking Writers Stems Since Always Where Influences Communicating Really Many Workshop
I always wanted to be a composer, and I sort of went in to NYU as pre-med because I just thought, 'Well... who actually becomes a composer?' Alan Menken
Thought Composer Well Sort Because Becomes Always Just Wanted Who NYU Actually
The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed. Albert Murray
Nature Progress Jazz Musicianship Must Composer Be Prepared Written Simply Performer Execute Truly Score Contribute Expected Improvisational Orchestration Who Rehearsed Prepared Function Competent
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?' Alfred Schnittke
You Experience First Composer Do You Know Know Concerto Accordion Very
My father knew classical music very well. Driving in the car, listening to the radio, he could name every composer, every movement, what piece it was. I was fascinated by the way he recognized who wrote what. Anat Cohen
Music Listening Car Father Every Way Recognized Composer Classical Classical Music Could Driving He Knew Name Piece Wrote Well Very Movement Who Radio Fascinated
I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song. Andrew Lloyd Webber
Good You Song Lyric Composer Good Song Written Know Tune Therefore
If you just want ten songs to fit somebody else's script, then I'm not really the composer for that. Andrew Lloyd Webber
You Somebody Else Composer Ten Songs Fit Just Want Script Then Really
I simply love Wagner's music. That actually started very early. He was the first composer I was exposed very much to because my parents introduced me to Wagner's music very early. Andris Nelsons
Love Music Me Parents First Introduced Composer He Simply Because Wagner Very Much Exposed Actually Early Started
Poets these days, like artists and composers, have won for themselves almost unlimited freedom. You can pass yourself off as a painter without being able to draw, as a composer without being conscious of key relationships, and as a poet without making yourself familiar with traditional verse forms. Anne Stevenson
Freedom You Yourself Key Poet Relationships Unlimited Draw Able Composer Composers Poets Almost Days Like Without Pass Making Traditional Verse Off Won Familiar Artists Being Forms Themselves Painter Conscious
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. Ansel Adams
Negative Composer Performance Print Equivalent Score
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