100 Composers Quotes for You to Enjoy

It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers or classical musicians. Robert Coppola Schwartzman

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So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old. Robert Morris

Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors. Shaan

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My experience and growth in the film music world and the time I've spent studying legendary film composers have given me depth of insight into how music can inspire a range of emotions. Sid Sriram

It's interesting: composers can be very funny ducks. Simon Rattle

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Since music is a reflection of our mindset and our culture, it is bound to change with time. I am glad that India is such a receiving country and is always open to all kinds of music. Our composers, singers and writers are open to experimenting. Sonu Nigam

Debussy is one of the few composers who actually created a new sound on the piano - or perhaps we should say a new smell, so perfumed are the vibrations which emanate from the instrument. Stephen Hough

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No two composers were more totally at home in front of the piano than Debussy and Chopin, hands to keys to strings to sound waves to pen and paper in one perfect gesture of inspiration. Stephen Hough

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns. Stephen Sondheim

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I'm blessed to be working with wizards like Vishal Bhardwaj as well as many young composers. Sukhwinder Singh

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I have declared that I will work free of cost with those composers who are passionate about their work. Sohail Sen is one such lad, whose music in Banjaara has been liked a lot. Sukhwinder Singh

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In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters. Tyler Cowen

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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius. Wallace Shawn

I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors and, more particularly, composers of great solidity, knowledge, and taste. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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I want Bappa to be amongst the best music composers. My father was a great singer and I also did quite well and now my son would take forward the legacy, as music is in our blood. Bappi Lahiri

I think all of The Beatles were from an era when certainly playing was important to them, and they were cutting edge. But for all time, they're master composers. Paul Gilbert

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It's really been enlightening for me to work with composers because I used to think that everything in the music was exactly what the composer meant. Well, it's what the composer meant in that moment when they wrote it. Hilary Hahn

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My father Apresh Lahiri and mother Bansari Lahiri were great composers of their time. Bappi Lahiri

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