Composer Quotes

My first husband, John Barry, was a composer. I couldn't believe that this sophisticated, talented genius chose me and not any of the other girls. I was so flattered, so excited, so in love with him. Of course, my parents were horrified, as he'd been married once and had a daughter with the au pair girl. Jane Birkin
Love Me Genius Girl Husband Parents Daughter First Believe Other Once Married John Composer Horrified Had He Excited Talented Sophisticated Him Course Were Been Any Flattered Barry Pair Chose
Give the composer time to experiment, time to try out ideas. Also, the time to fail. When the composer has very little time, the temptation is to reach for stock ideas - ideas they know will work and have worked in the past. Johann Johannsson
Work Time Try Will Past Experiment Out Composer Temptation Give Fail Reach Ideas Know Also Stock Very In The Past Little Worked Little Time
When I write music for a film, I'm not writing a solo album, and I'm not writing a personal piece. I'm part of a team of artists. So I think like a filmmaker more than a composer. Johann Johannsson
Music Writing Think Solo Composer More Write Part Like Piece Than Personal Artists Team Film Album Filmmaker
When I'm writing film music, I feel like I'm more a filmmaker than a composer. It's more about what the film needs. I'm basically part of the team that's creating a film, and the music is a very important part, but it's just one part of many. Johann Johannsson
Music Needs Writing Important Composer About More Part Feel Like Important Part Very Than Just Just One Creating Team Many Film Film Music Basically Filmmaker
One of my heroes is a composer named James Bernard, and oh my God... I can still listen to his music today and be stirred and moved by it. But I think that you fall in love with... Well, again, when you're young, it really is more powerful. Much more terrifying. John Carpenter
Love Today Music God You Heroes Fall Young Think Bernard Composer More Powerful Named Well Terrifying Still His Stirred Listen Oh Moved Oh My God James Again Much Really
I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too. John Corigliano
Every Too Composer Glad Like Because Up Won Wanted Grew Award Pulitzer
You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award. John Corigliano
Great You Win Become Think Composer Meaningless Award Now Pulitzer
I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England. John Corigliano
Good Respect Find Composer He Because Opposed American Automatically Really England Ridiculous British Mediocre
Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist. John Eaton
Me First Say Composer Never First Of All Well Been Much Theorist
I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on. John Eaton
Responsibility Think Visual Exactly Exactly What Kinds Composer Rate Clear Opera Make Audience Real American American Audience Any Going Staff Production Use Elements
Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty. John Philip Sousa
You Lie Remember Beauty Creation Pen Possibilities Composer Bow Always Still Than Mightier Violinist
That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year. John Zorn
You Challenges Yourself Try Challenge Year Hundred Okay Composer Write Like Said Doing Anything Tunes Interested Keep Set
I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from Mount Sinai with the tablets. It doesn't work like that. The job of a composer is putting something down on a piece of paper that will inspire the person who's playing. John Zorn
Work Alone Inspire Will Job Down Paper Composer Composing Tablets Something Putting Idea Tower Like Piece Masterpieces His Ivory Mount Person Ascribe Room Then Who Playing
I write arrangements. I'm sort of a wannabe composer. Joshua Bell
Composer Write Sort Arrangements
Bach's music is really some of the greatest. I think, in some ways, Bach is the most profound composer of all. Joshua Bell
Music Think Bach Ways Composer Some Most Greatest Really Profound
I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition. Julia Holter
Music Writing School Composer Classical Tradition Started
I feel like there is a different, new energy when I collaborate with a living artist, whether it be a composer, designer, lighting designer. I love that process. Justin Peck
Love Energy Living Collaborate Composer Feel Lighting New Like Artist Different Process Whether Designer
In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play. Karen DeCrow
Music Musicians Mind Composer Feel Instrument Understand Audience Hear Each Play Chamber
I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing. Kate Smith
Respect Embellish Composer Shall Idea Always Am His
Puccini is my favorite composer. Kristine Opolais
Favorite Composer
It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best. Leo Ornstein
Best Own Composer His Mean Works Necessarily Plays
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language. Leo Ornstein
Today Language Own Composer Only He Involved Aesthetic His Trying Create Each Actually
I'm not an intellectual composer. Les Baxter
Composer Intellectual
If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. Levi Strauss
Experience Ladder Musical Torn Composer More Delicious Point Void Thrust Feel Falling Been Anticipate Than Stable Sensation
My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and composer. Ludovico Einaudi
Home Family Mother Father Met Musical Composer Piano Never She Came Conductor Who Her Played
I discovered that I didn't want to be strict like a German composer. Ludovico Einaudi
Strict Composer Like Discovered German Want
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