Quotes and Sayings About Composer

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

#Music #Art #Composer

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

#Names #Musical #Composer

I am but an architectural composer.
-- Alexander Jackson Davis

#Architecture #Composer

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

#Firsts #Composer #Accordions

Composers are always going back to the past.
-- Anne Dudley

#Past #Composer

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

#Thinking #Composer #Call Me

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.
-- Anton Seidl

#Responsibility #Spirit #Composer

Composers are not all good conductors.
-- Anton Seidl

#Composer #Conductor

I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
-- Antonio Damasio

#Writing #Mahler #Composer

The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
-- Arthur Honegger

#Requirements #Firsts #Composer

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

#Want #Modern #Composer

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
-- Ayumi Hamasaki

#Writing #Composer #Difficult

The model of a composer.
-- Benjamin Britten

#Music #Composer #Models

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

#Arguing #Century #Composer

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

#Avant Garde #Composer #Mathematician

The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me.
-- Bulat Okudzhava

#Singers #Composer #Hated

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

#Country #Important #Composer

We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Opera #Firsts #Composer

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

#May #Form #Composer

I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.
-- Charles Mingus

#Music #Spontaneous #Composer

Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary...
-- Claude Debussy

#Revolutionary #Composer #Debussy

The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.
-- Claudio Monteverdi

#Foundation #Modern #Composer

Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer have anything to say and take to performing instead of stating.
-- Clement Greenberg

#Artist #Recognition #Composer

Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.
-- David Del Tredici

#Energy #World #Composer

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.
-- David Del Tredici

#Composer

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

#Used #Composer #Stills

Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
-- Dmitri Shostakovich

#Worship #Despise #Composer

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

#Hair #Natural #Composer

The present day composer refuses to die.
-- Edgard Varese

#Composer #Refuse

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

#Today #Composer #Throat