Composer Quotes

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

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

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.

My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.

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.

Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography.

My main concern is if this composer has been made aware of the fact that I've come clean in all of my cases. I killed in pure hate, robbing along the way. So if this person hasn't, then I'd sure appreciate it if someone would inform him or her of it.

I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.

At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn't feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it.

The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.

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

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there.

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

I am but an architectural composer.

I'm not an intellectual composer.

That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.

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

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer.

In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.