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Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.
— Leo Ornstein
He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.
— Oscar Peterson
The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.
— Stewart Copeland
It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.
— Morton Gould
You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.
— John Corigliano
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
— Simon Rattle
Bach's music is really some of the greatest. I think, in some ways, Bach is the most profound composer of all.
— Joshua Bell
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
Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.
— Virgil Thomson
There's more musical freedom on Madison Avenue than anywhere else. It's an Eden for a composer.
— Mitch Leigh
Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing.
— Elmer Bernstein
If you're a composer, there's never a moment you're not working.
— Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
When we walked down the aisle, they played Taco Bell's Canyon, Quinn says knowingly. (Named for its German composer, Johann TacoBell.)
— Michael Lewis
The discrepancy between the vacationists' good times and Isolde's unfortunate experience is more than disgusting
— Paul Hindemith
The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.
— H.L. Mencken
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
It's a cute little studio apartment that has just what I need: a bed, a couch, a table, a chair, and a coffee-maker.
— Shawn Lukas
Every composer understands and uses the system of notation differently, and that's what makes you appreciate the trouble they go through in doing so.
— Marc-Andre Hamelin
I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music.
— Vladimir Ashkenazy
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
— Ansel Adams
This music, transmitted by loud-speakers, made a masterpiece appear like an amateurish attempt at composition by nimcompoop
— Paul Hindemith
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
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
Wherever there's a conductor, you're sure to find a dead composer!
— Daniel Handler
Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.
— Nellie Melba
Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.
— Aldous Huxley
It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.
— Michael Bolton
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
— Ansel Adams
To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.
— Gustav Mahler
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
