Quotes About Composer

He had never heard of a composer called Tippett but he knew it meant a tuneless evening of scraping catgut.

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

To find a new British composer who is really good is rare.

I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.

What is so beautiful about a composer and a lyricist is that their job is to push a story along and not halt it.

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.

I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

As a composer, I want to try different genres, and I always look forward to trying different things, but I think the word 'romantic' is synonymous with my name, and that's why I am offered such songs.

I was offered a few shows, but the money didn't work out, but I'm not very keen on judging such shows. I'm happy in my space as a composer.

As a composer, it is a great thrill for me to have an album in the top 15 of the pop charts.

I consider Rahman as a great composer. I had a lump in my throat when I heard his name being announced. I thanked God that he got an Oscar for Original Score, that was more than enough for me. I wonder what might have happened to me if I had gone there. I might have cried.

I guess the passion I have for cinema is as strong as the one that I have for music. And I've always tried to be a character in the film, not just a composer that throws his music to the film. That's the main element that connects me with directors.

I began as a violinist, not a composer. Thus my contact with orchestral musicians, with the source of music, is very important.

Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful canon, one of those pieces in which, surely, the composer simply transcribed what was given, and trembled in awe of the hand that was guiding him.

It is rather an occasion, darling,' said Moreland, vexed at these objections. 'After all, I am noted among composers for the smallness of my output. I don't turn out a symphony every week like some people. A new work by me ought to be celebrated with a certain flourish—if only to encourage the composer himself.

It was clear that the composer no longer consoled himself with the thought that music could express everything and did not require verbal commentary.

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.

O trabalho de um compositor talentoso é criar expectativas e depois ou satisfazê-las ou frustrá-las. Mas o compositor não pode nem deve tentar um empolgamento constante. Como em qualquer história que se conte, ou mesmo num espetáculo de fogo de artifício, acrescentam-se algumas passagens mais calmas, deliberadamente, para que os momentos importantes causem mais efeito.

I don't think any novelist is happy being just a novelist. I'm sure you know this. We should be poets. We should be composers and we should be making language do things that the novel won't allow you to do. This is what I've been trying to do for a long time.

If I were reborn, if I were a teen-ager now, starting my career as a composer, I would do again what I have done.

I'm into horror pictures because I love the fear of being alone in the dark, and I'd recommend that to any composer who wants to work in this genre.

If a singer wants to improvise while recording a song, he has to get the permission of the composer.

I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.

In my early music-loving days, I thought Beethoven was a bit bombastic, a bit heroic, a bit, well, big.