Composer Quotes

There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces.
Evelyn Glennie

Enough, Sound, Player

I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.
Park Chan-wook

Love, Work, Film

To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.
Paul Thomas Anderson

Big, Film, Final

Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
Kate Smith

Sincerity, Intention, Analysis

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

Respect, Idea, Shall

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography.
Graeme Murphy

Around, Number, Yes

I'm like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, I'm still going to be asking for more time two days before it's due.
Darren Criss

Time, Give, Two

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

Great, Genius, Bernard

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

Love, Young, Listen

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
Ornette Coleman

Wanted, Tell, Originally

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.
John Philip Sousa

Himself, Higher, Conscious

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.
John Philip Sousa

Beauty, Lie, Remember

I'm still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.
Dhani Harrison

Used, Getting, Maybe

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.
Danny Elfman

Through, Trying, Film

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.
Michael Bolton

Speak, Moments, Intention

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.
Ivor Novello

Dreams, Career, Becoming

Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.
Ray Comfort

Nature, Car, Simple

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
Carlisle Floyd

Choose, Characters, Subject

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

Great, Nice, Her

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

Someone, Before, Started

I write arrangements. I'm sort of a wannabe composer.
Joshua Bell

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.
David Amram

Great, Done, Anyone

As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything.
Darren Criss

Art, True, Painting

I consider myself a composer.
Timbaland

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.
Leo Ornstein

Today, Trying, Language

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

Best, Mean, 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.
Ayumi Hamasaki

Music, Work, Knowledge

It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.
Jamaica Kincaid

True, Children, Small

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
Harrison Birtwistle

Give, Same, Worth

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