151 Composer Quotes for You to Enjoy

When you are known as this cutting-edge composer all the time... it's no longer cutting-edge. Du Yun

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I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl. Edmund Phelps

You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights. Elvis Costello

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Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm still very old-fashioned, I still use pencil and paper. But almost every composer I know does it the 'new way.' Eric Whitacre

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The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Ernest Newman

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There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces. Evelyn Glennie

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Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment? Franz Schubert

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. Gian Carlo Menotti

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My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily. Gianni Versace

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Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours. Gioachino Rossini

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Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography. Graeme Murphy

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Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations. Gunther Schuller

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