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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

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself. — Michala Petri

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

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it. — Hanns Eisler

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

With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer. — Bear McCreary

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

A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out. — Ernest Newman

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

In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play. — Karen DeCrow

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

In many times, after creating a piece of work I want to stand up and applaud. — Shawn Lukas

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

Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33") — John Cage

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life. — Nobuo Uematsu

I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music. — Vladimir Ashkenazy