Composer Quotes - Page 5

Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.

Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

[Composers] Mark [Shaiman] and Scott [Wittman] are unreal.

I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day.

I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.

Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33")

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.

When I got out of college I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singer, actor. I just got day jobs and auditioned and took what came and the theater doors were the ones opening the most.

Good composers don't borrow, they steal

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

Human warmth is perhaps the most lacking in a composer who lives his life in a recording studio.

Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing.

If you're a composer, there's never a moment you're not working.

Im still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!

The model of a composer.

For my qualifying concert, Helmut Walcha would not coach Charles-Marie Widor or any American compositions. In his defense, his forte was Germanic composers, and his forte was really a fortissimo!

Men have been in the forefront of music for centuries, and they have written glorious music, loved and appreciated by many. In some ways, men are still in the forefront. There is a lot of room for composers of all types of music by both men and women, nowadays.

I have written six symphonies, they are smaller-scale works. I seem to emit my themes, work them out, combine and intertwine them, and then come to a close. I usually feel that there are no superfluous extras, but probably most composers feel that way about their works.

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music

I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.