151 Composer Quotes for You to Enjoy

Every now and then, as a composer and producer, it's important to write music for yourself. Ludwig Goransson

Music Yourself Important Every Composer Write Then Producer Now Now And Then

Before I start, I create a set list that I listen to while I'm writing. For 'Intimate Apparel,' I loaded Erik Satie, Scott Joplin, klezmer music, and the American jazz performer and composer Reginald Robinson. Lynn Nottage

Music Writing Before Jazz Intimate Composer Performer Robinson Scott American List Listen While Create Apparel Start Loaded Set

As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen. Marvin Hamlisch

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If somebody says, 'Well, what are your favorite composers?' really, what they are saying is, 'What are your favorite composers apart from Bach?' Because obviously, Bach is your favorite composer if you are involved in music at all. Max Richter

Music Saying You Somebody Bach Says Favorite Composer Composers Involved Obviously Well Because Apart Really Your

When you think of Mitch Leigh as a businessman, remember he's also a composer. And when you think of Mitch Leigh as a composer, remember he's also a businessman. Mitch Leigh

You Remember Think Composer He Also Leigh Businessman

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels. Nigel Kennedy

Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made. Paul Engle

Art Good School Made Master Gone Corn Composer Born Architect Hybrid Both Poets Writer Like Instruction Always Least Art School Established Then Sculptor Painter Why Why Not

To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer. Paul Thomas Anderson

You Big Final Collaborator Composer Make Film

Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas. Peter Ackroyd

Work Nature Language Demanding String Unnatural Composer Only Write Piano Writer He Divisions He Or She Also She Force Within Equivalent Historian Histories Expect Against Produce Should English English Language Novelist Novels Why

Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer. Richard Ernst

Become Would Composer Rather Knew Soon Chemist Than

I felt frustrated by the limitations of rock and the lifestyle of touring around on a bus and playing the same songs over and over. So I went back to school to study music, and one of the things I got into was the Italian opera composer Puccini. Rivers Cuomo

Music School Back Back To School One Of The Things Composer Lifestyle Songs Touring Study Over Opera Around Felt Limitations Rock Got Italian Same Frustrated Bus Things Playing

I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer. Robert Patterson

Composer Horn Computer Am Player Programmer

As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer. Samuel Barber

Music Book Own Composer About My Own Sonata Write Piano Never Written Abstract Self-Conscious Feel Concerto

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it. Sarah Brightman

Music Composer Rather Am Than Interpreter

Alan Jay Lerner needed a hit. The Broadway lyricist and librettist was a decade removed from his greatest successes when his partnership with composer Frederick Loewe produced something approaching unholy alchemy. Sarah Weinman

Approaching Lyricist Broadway Composer Frederick Something Partnership Greatest His Hit Decade Unholy Produced Successes Jay Alan Alchemy Needed

The grapevine in England is an extraordinary thing. When there is a really brilliant young composer or soloist, we all hear about it. Simon Rattle

Brilliant Young Extraordinary Composer About Hear Really England Thing

I love listening to things like those wonderful piano pieces of Stockhausen. It's just not my thing as a composer or performer, and thank goodness we're not obliged to be Modernist any more. Stephen Hough

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I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one. Steven Price

You Composer Never Open Idea Know Because Go Trying Going Quite Different Might Next Whole Different Things Keep Thing Things

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