Composer Quotes
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Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
Judy Holliday
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Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.
Milos Forman
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The artist must forget the audience,
forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music.
Then, the music speaks through the performance,
and the performer and the listener will walk together
with the soul of the composer, and with
God.
Mstislav Rostropovich
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The psychological detective story in "Equus" made Peter Shaffer's name as a playwright. But it was his next play, "Amadeus," that cemented his reputation, largely because of the movie version. Another battle of wills, it was the story of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart seen through the eyes of lesser composer Antonio Salieri.
Bob Mondello
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The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
Ernest Newman
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You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!
Michael Tilson Thomas
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I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto. One of my closest friends is a composer, Paul Moravec, and a few years ago, Paul and I were at lunch, and I said to him, "you really have to write an opera." So, he says very casually to me, "I'll do it if you write the libretto." Well, little did I know that the within a couple of years we would end up getting a commission from the Santa Fe Opera to write an opera together, "The Letter," which turned out to be the most successful commissioned opera in the history of the Santa Fe Opera.
Terry Teachout
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I am proud to be able to claim that, from the age of nineteen, I've managed to earna living entirely as a composer.
Richard Rodney Bennett
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There's more musical freedom on Madison Avenue than anywhere else. It's an Eden for a composer.
Mitch Leigh
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Chopin was the first piano composer who knew exactly how to make piano sound reach fullness, radiance and grandness. What to regard and what, by all means, to avoid. Chopin was keenly aware of the overtones and he did take care of them so artfully.
Frederic Chopin
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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
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The composer makes plans, music laughs.
Morton Feldman