Composers Quotes

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply.

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

Sincere composers believe in God.

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.

The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it!

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.

A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

Composers are always going back to the past.