Composer Quotes
That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.
Morton Gould
You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.
Elvis Costello
My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.
Danica McKellar
I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.
John Corigliano
My main concern is if this composer has been made aware of the fact that I've come clean in all of my cases. I killed in pure hate, robbing along the way. So if this person hasn't, then I'd sure appreciate it if someone would inform him or her of it.
Aileen Wuornos
I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.
Giorgio Moroder
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.
Thomas Dolby
Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
Ornette Coleman
You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.
John Corigliano
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.
Kurt Masur
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.
Gustav Mahler
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.
Charles Ives
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.
Leo Ornstein
John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.
Carter Burwell
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.
Maurice Jarre
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.
John Zorn
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
Ansel Adams
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
In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
Elliott Carter
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.
Gyorgy Legeti