Quotes About Composer

I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.

Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.

I had a really nice association with Richie DeRosa, a great musician, a great drummer and composer and arranger. And I had a number of classes with him.

I wanted to honor [George Gershwin]. He's a great American songwriter.

The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

Part of what Brahms and others could never quite get over was that Bruckner the composer of epic symphonies behaved, much of the time, like a nincompoop.

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.

Beethoven's practice of counting out exactly sixty beans for his morning cup of coffee

And then she leaned back her head with the faintest smile and, tapping her chin, asked, Are you in love with him, this mystery composer? How can I be? I asked in return. I don't even know him. Almost every opera is about this, she said, her smile growing. Love before first sight.

I sang it as a gift to the audience, to the composer, to me. I sang it as a taunt to the Fates, too. I was weary of my fears as well as my desires, and so I sang it in simple defiance of all of it, even defying myself.

I am but an architectural composer.

Stepping back into theatre, a childhood dream, I always felt like I would be onstage. I hadn't imagined myself in a composer role... I find it so satisfying to be behind the scenes and writing the music and watching it elevated and characterized by different voices than my own. It's so exciting.

I'm a living composer, so I think I just write and compose the music of my time. I'm not saying that I am better than anyone in the past, but I am saying that I may have evolved some emotions that have connected with the people that are living on the planet today with me.

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

I just have to take my chances like any other composer.

I am but an architectural composer.

I think of myself as a film composer.

I always wanted to be a composer, and I sort of went in to NYU as pre-med because I just thought, 'Well... who actually becomes a composer?'