Composer Quotes

Composer Quote of the day

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.

The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.

It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color.

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

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.

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.

The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.

I am but an architectural composer.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.

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

The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself.

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations.

I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.

Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.

The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.

The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again.

Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.

Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.

I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.

Music was not invented by the composer, but found.

When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to write about anybody I don't care about.

My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.

Freddie Bryant is a brilliant young guitarist and composer.

I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography.

I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.

A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

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

As a composer I could never find use for over 4 or 5 notes in any musical number, and as a playwright most of my plays have two acts because i couldn't think of an idea for the third act.

A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.

The present day composer refuses to die.

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.