Quotes About Composer

There are not any composers like Bach. There's just Bach.

One of Beethoven's favorite dishes was macaroni and cheese. The girl I marry must be able to make good macaroni and cheese..." "How did Beethoven feel about cold cereal?

Composer" is a word which here means "a person who sits in a room, muttering and humming and figuring out what notes the orchestra is going to play." This is called composing. But last night, the Composer was not muttering. He was not humming. He was not moving, or even breathing. This is called decomposing.

Wherever there's a conductor, you're sure to find a dead composer!

I'll probably always write film scores. It's the one place where a composer has almost unlimited resources at his beck and call. When music you have written works well in a film, nothing can beat it.

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express different storytelling ideas.

The rebels, however, wanted them out of two places in particular—Donetsk airport and the town of Debaltseve, through which local roads and railways run. The airport, named for the famous composer Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953), who was born nearby, was gleaming and new, having been among those rebuilt for the 2012 Euro soccer championships.

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.

I never dreamed of writing for concert or opera. I always dreamed, if I was a composer, to write music for films.

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

Hexel's blue eyes were narrowed, his long, black hair looked suddenly windblown, though the candles behind him burned still. As a dramatist and composer, he had an exhausting passion for dramatics. He was lean, moody, intense; students at the music school constantly pushed notes under his door, or set his discarded scribbles to music, or dropped roses or themselves across his work.

I hope Ludwig van Beethoven gets his cut, Langdon thought, fairly certain that the original inventor of bone conduction technology was the eighteenth-century composer who, upon going deaf, discovered he could affix a metal rod to his piano and bite down on it while he played, enabling him to hear perfectly through vibrations in his jawbone.

'End of Summer' expands the way I want to express myself as a composer. It's a piece of visual music that has this narrative and conceptual dimension to it.

My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority.

6 Yet, history took a different course. Mozart died that December and the adjunct post fell to Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, court organist in Vienna, distinguished composer, theorist, and Mozart's senior by twenty years.7 A little over a year later, the Viennese magistrate also honored the commitment previously made to Mozart and, after Hofmann's death in March 1793, Albrechtsberger became kapellmeister of the cathedral and retained that office until the end of his life in 1809.

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece.

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

I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.

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

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.

The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much the heart of the world they've created on film.