Quotes on Composers

Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in.

Author: Mose Allison

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.

Author: Michael Bolton

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.

Author: Johannes Brahms

I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.

Author: Gavin Bryars

In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.

Author: Hoagy Carmichael

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

Author: Pablo Casals

I have tremendous respect for film composers.

Author: John Corigliano

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.

Author: George Crumb

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

Author: Dietrich Dieskau

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

Author: Howard Dietz

Composers are always going back to the past.

Author: Anne Dudley

Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.

Author: John Eaton

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.

Author: John Eaton

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.

Author: Brian Ferneyhough

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.

Author: Brian Ferneyhough

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

Author: Brian Ferneyhough

Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

Author: Carlisle Floyd

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

Author: Brian Greene

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.

Author: Jascha Heifetz

There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!

Author: J. Johnson

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

Author: Alberto Moravia

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing.

Author: Gerry Mulligan

A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?

Author: Johannes Rau

Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.

Author: Anton Rubinstein

Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.

Author: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

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.

Author: Andres Segovia

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.

Author: Anton Seidl

Composers are not all good conductors.

Author: Anton Seidl

I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.

Author: David Tredici

I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.

Author: Edgard Varese

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.

Author: Warren Zevon