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I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.
— John Edensor Littlewood
Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.
— Oscar Peterson
A composer once told me that the silence from which each note emerges is more important than the note itself.
— Wayne W. Dyer
Copland was the first important American classical composer to go to work for Hollywood.
— Terry Teachout
As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to write about anybody I don't care about.
— Andrew Lloyd Webber
The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself.
— Lindsey Stirling
Freddie Bryant is a brilliant young guitarist and composer.
— Kenny Burrell
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
— Leonard Bernstein
The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
— Gustav Mahler
It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.
— Morton Gould
Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived ... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
We all think we are actors, given our scripts. But really? You're the playwright. You're the composer.
— David Levithan
As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.
— Camille Paglia
Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.
— Aaron Copland
Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.
— Leonard Bernstein
One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer.
— Benjamin Britten
I've always been a composer dependent on texts.
— David Del Tredici
Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary ...
— Claude Debussy
When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.
— Leonard Bernstein
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
— Jean Cocteau
Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.
— Giuseppe Verdi
The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins.
— Hans Von Bulow
I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.
— John Corigliano
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!
— Michael Tilson Thomas
We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.
— Cecilia Bartoli
You are lyricist, me a composer - you and I make a complete song.
— Alexandra Monir
Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
— Kate Smith
The composer ... joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.
— Alan Hovhaness
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.
— John Philip Sousa
I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.
— Park Chan-wook
To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.
— Gustav Mahler
A burst of Beethoven that would have made the composer glad he was deaf erupted from her i-Phone.
— Ian Simpson
This music, transmitted by loud-speakers, made a masterpiece appear like an amateurish attempt at composition by nimcompoop
— Paul Hindemith
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.
— John Corigliano
I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer.
— Stanley Clarke
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.
— Benjamin Britten
An artist, as much as a writer or composer, needed themes, needed ideas.
— Hanya Yanagihara
As a composer, Dylan now fits comfortably alongside George Gershwin or Irving Berlin, though he grumpily refuses to wear any man's collar.
— Douglas Brinkley
To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both.
— Leonard Bernstein
Music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn't predicted.
— Jojo Moyes
The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me.
— Bulat Okudzhava
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!
— Frederic Chopin
The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.
— Arthur Honegger
The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.
— Claudio Monteverdi
What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music?
— Charles Mingus
To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.
— Paul Thomas Anderson
I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer.
— Robert Patterson
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
— Ansel Adams
I am but an architectural composer.
— Alexander Jackson Davis
I don't really call myself a composer.
— Caroline Shaw
I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.
— Sarah Brightman
I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.
— Alex Prager
It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.
— Michael Bolton
I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer.
— Julian Casablancas
Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.
— Jean Cocteau
Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.
— Aldous Huxley
What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.
— Twyla Tharp
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
— Harrison Birtwistle
I'm not an architectural composer.
— Harrison Birtwistle
You are the composer and conductor and thus decide what key of life to live. I choose major over minor whenever I can.
— Susan Reynolds
I'm not an intellectual composer.
— Les Baxter
I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to search for pieces I want to record.
— Sarah Brightman
I think a composer is always interested in his last work.
— Gyorgy Ligeti
John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.
— Carter Burwell
Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.
— Nellie Melba
Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.
— Gioachino Rossini
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.
— Christopher Young
Wherever there's a conductor, you're sure to find a dead composer!
— Daniel Handler
Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.
— John Philip Sousa
When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.
— Bill Viola
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
— Ansel Adams
My mother, Minuetta Kessler, was a concert pianist and composer who performed at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall.
— Ronald Kessler
I think it's very good music composed by a human composer and sung by two birds with two feet and no feathers!
— Alexandre Dumas
The present day composer refuses to die.
— Edgard Varese
The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence.
— Barry Finnerty
The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.
— Signe Baumane
