Quotes About Composers

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

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

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on paper.

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

Your mother and sister weren't on the radio telling us all to be brave. Look, I don't expect composers and poets to be heroes. I just don't like hypocrites.

It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

No two composers were more totally at home in front of the piano than Debussy and Chopin, hands to keys to strings to sound waves to pen and paper in one perfect gesture of inspiration.

Dietz and Schwartz have sort of fallen by the wayside a little bit, and they are up there with Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. They are the finest of the revue composers - their stuff is so good and so strong.

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.

I don't think there's such a difference between older and newer music as there is between one composer and another.

It's interesting: composers can be very funny ducks.

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

I would really love to do the score for movies. Pick the music and work with composers. I don't know if I'd be any good at it, but I love music.

If somebody says, 'Well, what are your favorite composers?' really, what they are saying is, 'What are your favorite composers apart from Bach?' Because obviously, Bach is your favorite composer if you are involved in music at all.

I loved a lot of the romantic composers.

My favourite composers are Vishal Shekhar, AR Rahman, Shankar Ehsaan-Loy.

I think TV composers don't get enough credit. I really think it is one of the hardest jobs.

We love what we do. We're passionate about making music and as composers; that's just who we are.

I'm the benefactor of people who are doing so much hard work championing women composers.

You never know what you're going to learn from which pieces and which composers and colleagues are going to influence that thing you think you know.