Music Composer Quotes
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Music Composer Quotes & Sayings
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The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself.
— Lindsey Stirling
I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.
— Charles Mingus
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
— Gustav Mahler
No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.
— Isadora Duncan
Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.
— Aaron Copland
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
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
Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice.It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called the Universal Language. — Ellen J. Barrier
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
— Gustav Mahler
Music was not invented by the composer, but found.
— Nadia Boulanger
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
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
— Sri Aurobindo
It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
The model of a composer.
— Benjamin Britten
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
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
The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.
— Arthur Honegger
In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.
— Sxip Shirey
I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music, some have a larger role.
— Cliff Martinez
Many contemporary composers have been building walls of sounds following their own clever devices. But then, who lives inside those rooms?
— Toru Takemitsu
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
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!
— Michael Tilson Thomas
I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.
— Sarah Brightman
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
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
Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.
— Nellie Melba
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
In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
— Elliott Carter
This music, transmitted by loud-speakers, made a masterpiece appear like an amateurish attempt at composition by nimcompoop
— Paul Hindemith
Music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn't predicted.
— Jojo Moyes
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
The composer makes plans, music laughs.
— Morton Feldman
As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.
— Eric Whitacre
