Composer Quotes
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
Samuel Barber
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I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.
Patch Adams
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I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
Kate Smith
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...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine connoisseur invited the composer to dinner. 'This is the Brahms of my cellar,' he said to his guests, producing a dust-covered bottle and pouring some into the master's glass. Brahms looked first at the color of the wine, then sniffed its bouquet, finally took a sip, and put the glass down without saying a word. 'Don't you like it?' asked the host. 'Hmm,' Brahms muttered. 'Better bring your Beethoven!'
Arthur Rubinstein
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I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
Gavin Bryars
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In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.
Fede Alvarez
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I wanted to be a composer before anything else. And my sister was listening to Led Zeppelin in the other room! When I heard that, it was a game-changer.
Steven Siro Vai
Alcatrazz
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It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.
Bela Bartok
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The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.
Arthur Honegger
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Mozart's job classification was to write music, which he did for ballets and operas. He got paid to do that, and taught on the side. He wasn't a waiter. He didn't sell mutual funds. Those are all noble professions, but if you want to be a professional composer, then you're writing dramatic music for film and television.
Bill Conti
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Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the sculptor uses stone and wood, the painter his pigments, and the writer - words.
Ted Shawn
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The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.
Alan Hovhaness
