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It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color. — Cecilia Bartoli

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

She seemed to have apprehended all of the composer's coldness and none of his poetry. — Kate Chopin

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. — Danny Elfman

I'm like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, I'm still going to be asking for more time two days before it's due. — Darren Criss

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

A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time. — Frank Zappa

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

Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity. — Kate Smith

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