Composer Quotes

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

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

At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn't feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it.

The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.

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

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

Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there.

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

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.

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

I am but an architectural composer.

I'm not an intellectual composer.

That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.

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

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.

I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer.

In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

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

I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's also important to do the music of Handel, one of the greatest composers of the 18th century.

It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars... knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear.

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void.

If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.