Composer Quotes - Page 3

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.

I have tremendous respect for film composers.

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

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

I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.

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

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

The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.

Composers are not all good conductors.

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.

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

Composers are always going back to the past.

Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?

A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation.

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.

I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.