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I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
— Antonio Damasio
I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.
— John Edensor Littlewood
Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
— Judy Holliday
Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
— A.R. Rahman
I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.
— Gavin Bryars
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
Good composers don't borrow, they steal
— Igor Stravinsky
He was a six and a half foot scowl.(on Rachmaninov) — Igor Stravinsky
Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn't.
— Aaron Copland
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
— Neville Marriner
Composers are always going back to the past.
— Anne Dudley
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 musical equivalent of St Pancras Station.(on Elgar) — Thomas Beecham
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
So you're a real person! I always thought you were a legendary figure, like unicorns or Giuseppe Verdi.
— Lemony Snicket
I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.
— David Del Tredici
Sincere composers believe in God.
— John Philip Sousa
Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.
— Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing.
— Gerry Mulligan
A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.
— Evelyn Glennie
I'm blessed to be working with wizards like Vishal Bhardwaj as well as many young composers.
— Sukhwinder Singh
Pandit Pran Nath has given much of his later life to America and Europe and has influenced many of our younger composers.
— Bernard Holland
There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.
— Pepe Romero
In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.
— Hoagy Carmichael
Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.
— George Gershwin
Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent.
— Charles Bukowski
Reading great works of literature, discovering poetry, and listening to the best composers are all ways that we learn to love the Creator more.
— Jennifer A. Marshall
Many contemporary composers have been building walls of sounds following their own clever devices. But then, who lives inside those rooms?
— Toru Takemitsu
I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
— Ken Burns
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There are only two types of composers:
composing composers
and decomposing composers. — Lera Auerbach
History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.
— Michael P. Naughton
There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.
— Harold Prince
It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.
— Bela Bartok
The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos ... compared to that, we composers are nothing
— Karlheinz Stockhausen
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
— Pablo Casals
History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.
— Michael P. Naughton
You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.
— Mstislav Rostropovich
Composers are not all good conductors.
— Anton Seidl
I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.
— John Eaton
So many important New York musicians were gay, one wit dubbed the American Composers League the Homintern.
— Charles Kaiser
I came across a lot of young composers who have got passion but lack experience. I want to help them out.
— Sukhwinder Singh
I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
— Michael Caine
The city (of Vienna) had an unerring tradition of celebrating some of it's greatest composers after it had around them to die in poverty.
— Charles Emmerson
My advice to composers is, 'Try to reach 90, and everyone will love you.'
— Gian Carlo Menotti
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules ... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
— Brian Greene
Themes so vast that only composers could even approach them. If at all. All other artists must practice humility before them.
— Jan-Philipp Sendker
I sort of enjoy being able to hear what other composers are doing and how they might score something differently than me. I enjoy that part.
— Marco Beltrami
A dean is the conductor of an orchestra made up entirely of composers.
— Mark William Roche
I have tremendous respect for film composers.
— John Corigliano
Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.
— Aldous Huxley
Fortunately, I started very young, so I read music very well. And my favorite composers to play are Brahms and Mozart.
— Condoleezza Rice
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!
— Michael Tilson Thomas
America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.
— John Philip Sousa
I've seen composers work on 30 films at one go. So, eight or even 10 albums in a year is no big deal.
— Pritam Chakraborty
By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.
— John Galsworthy
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
— Alberto Moravia
All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.
— George Gershwin
I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day.
— Matt Groening
Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.
— Anton Rubinstein
Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.
— Cliff Martinez
Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.
— Nobuo Uematsu
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
— Brian Ferneyhough
Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.
— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.
— Thomas Beecham
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.
— David Del Tredici
The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me.
— Bulat Okudzhava
He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.(on Liszt) — Clara Schumann
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
— John Philip Sousa
What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression.
— Camille Saint-Saens
All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.
— James Tenney
