Composer Quotes - Page 2

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

The present day composer refuses to die.

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins.

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

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

I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.

Composers combine notes, that's all.

A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.

I just have to take my chances like any other composer.

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

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

I'm not an intellectual composer.

If you're a good composer, you steal good steals.

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.