Music Composers Quotes
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Music Composers Quotes & Sayings
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A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.
— Steven Pressfield
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
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
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
There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.
— Pepe Romero
The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.
— Martin Rees
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
History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.
— Michael P. Naughton
I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
— Ken Burns
Many contemporary composers have been building walls of sounds following their own clever devices. But then, who lives inside those rooms?
— Toru Takemitsu
DEAFNESS DOESN'T PREVENT COMPOSERS HEARING THE MUSIC. IT PREVENTS THEM HEARING THE DISTRACTIONS.
— Terry Pratchett
Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.
— Nobuo Uematsu
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
— John Philip Sousa
Stupidity is not my strong point.
— Paul Valery
I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.
— Harold Lloyd
I love the Twins, ... I bleed the Twins. That's all I know. If I go anywhere else, I'd be a foreigner.
— Torii Hunter
If I'm talking to a guy who's straight and cute and single, I'm like 'are you a unicorn?'
— Margaret Cho
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
I've been down in Florida since 1979. When you're born in Nebraska you really can't explain it.
— Larry The Cable Guy
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!
— Michael Tilson Thomas
I swear it by the River Styx,
— Josephine Angelini