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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
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
Alban Berg
Music
Knowledge
Result
Reflection
Enthusiasm
Perception
Feeling
Once
Alike
Composers
Only
Study
Performers
Talent
Also
Disciples
Protracted
Which
Product
Requires
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
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
Pablo Casals
Thieves
Everyone
Everywhere
Composers
Also
Greatest
Were
Forget
Stole
Us
Let Us
I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage.
Samuel Barber
Great
Courage
Matter
Great Deal
Hopeless
Style
Year
Holding
Believe
Every
Think
Back
Say
Must
Would
Would-Be
Composers
Case
Fact
Takes
Feel
New
Deal
Said
Doing
Go
Been
Just
In Fact
Certain
They Say
Thing
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
Thomas Beecham
Composers
Write
Boy
Errand
Tunes
Whistle
Should
I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.
Warren Zevon
Great
Saw
Composers
Classical
Classical Composers
He
Him
How
Were
Loved
Mean
Really
Hendrix
I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
A. R. Rahman
Music
Time
Quality
Listening
Difficult
Bach
Constantly
Composers
Classical
More
Stuff
Since
Name
Quality Time
Doing
Beethoven
Up
Modern
Listen
Grew
Who
Even
Now
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
I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.
A. R. Rahman
Music
Matter
Will
Become
Own
Young
Indian
Able
Composers
Give
Having
More
Write
Instead
Performers
Like
Enable
Sound
Sounds
Than
Just
Want
Them
Create
Producers
Skills
Engineers
Film
Film Music
Palette
Imaginative
As a kid, I loved classical music. Composers like Beethoven were like rock stars to me. Then there were the real rock stars: The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and Bob Dylan.
Alan Menken
Music
Me
Beatles
Stars
Kid
Composers
Classical
Classical Music
Like
Rock
Real
Rock Stars
Were
Beethoven
Rolling
Stones
Rolling Stones
Loved
Dylan
Bob
Bob Dylan
Then
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
Alberto Moravia
Good
Problem
Monotonous
Composers
Born
Perfect
Writers
Like
Understand
Were
Trying
Keep
Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.
Alex North
Today
Music
Gifted
Dreadful
TV
Composers
Record
Talent
Impose
Friday
Conditions
Expect
Get
Tuesday
Just
Decent
Script
When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.
Andres Segovia
Writing
Guitar
Circle
Virtuoso
Composers
Were
Began
Vicious
I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Sad
Great
You
People
Win
Think
Side
Broadway
Must
Composers
Absolutely
Had
Come
Perhaps
Been
West
West Side
West Side Story
Story
Fantastic
Younger
Worked
Younger People
Really
Award
Thing
Tony
Two pieces of advice for young composers: Go away during technical rehearsals. And do not have a back operation.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Advice
Go Away
Young
Back
Composers
Pieces
Operation
Go
Rehearsals
Technical
Away
Two
Composers are always going back to the past.
Anne Dudley
Past
Back
Composers
Always
Going
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
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
Antonio Damasio
You
Bach
Those
Composers
Mahler
Write
Because
Doing
Beethoven
Listen
Stop
Cannot
Require
Chopin
There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake.
Bill Conti
Music
Composers
About
Only
Higher
Write
Sophistication
Reaching
Aesthetic
Sake
Place
Who
Illusions
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
Brian Eno
Music
Experience
Thought
Increasingly
Our
Musical
Background
Musical Experience
Ourselves
Find
Composers
Write
Likely
Modern
Represent
Spaces
Which
Places
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
Brian Eno
Music
First
Sense
Composers
Could
Idea
Like
Make
Got
Terry
Heard
Tape
Itself
Mid
Interested
Really
Started
Playing
With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.
Brian Eno
Music
Time
Recording
Think
Changed
Everything
Furniture
Diminish
Composers
About
Seemed
Reluctant
Could
Part
Idea
Prospect
Importance
Because
Felt
Being
Place
Them
Meant
Many
Start
Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply.
Brian Ferneyhough
Law
Result
Other
Further
Diminishing
Composers
Taken
Particular
Returns
Than
Begun
Much
Meantime
Technique
Apply
The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.
Brian Ferneyhough
Other
Musical
Ruling
Musics
Composers
About
Both
Merely
Powers
Came
Opposition
Western
Accumulate
Depended
Canon
Subversion
Whom
Livelihood
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
Carla Bley
Best
Writing
Big
Band
Few
Living
Composers
Between
Talent
Big Band
Am
Doing
Lot
Very
Them
Far
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