Composer Quotes - Page 3

• Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

  Judy Holliday

  Giving, Facts, Performances

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• I have tremendous respect for film composers.

  John Corigliano

  Film, Film Composers

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• Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

  Carla Bley

  Writing, Band, Talent

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• We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

  Brian Eno

  Writing, Space, Musical

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• I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

  Enya

  Listen To Your Heart, Classical Composers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Opera, Firsts

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• Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

  Gavin Bryars

  Hard Times, France, Stills

  klassiknet interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

  Lion Feuchtwanger

  Writing, Historical Novels, Asking

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• I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.

  Cornelia Funke

  Young

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• I'm not an intellectual composer.

  Les Baxter

  Intellectual

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• I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.

  John Corigliano

  England, Ridiculous, British

  "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 1, 2005.

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• I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.

  David Del Tredici

  Writing, Groups, Chamber

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• America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

  John Philip Sousa

  Numbers, America, People

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• I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.

  John Corigliano

  Awards, Grew Up, Wanted

  "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 1, 2005.

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• Sincere composers believe in God.

  John Philip Sousa

  Believe, Sincere, Believe In God

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• I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

  Danny Elfman

  Psychics, Trying, Directors

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• If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Expecting, Caught, Aim

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• I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Opera, Classic, Century

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• The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

  Arthur Honegger

  Requirements, Firsts

  'Je suis compositeur' (1951) p. 16

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• Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Way, Form, Found

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• I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's also important to do the music of Handel, one of the greatest composers of the 18th century.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Thinking, Important, Vivaldi

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• Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.

  George Crumb

  Years, Two, Musical

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• I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

  Gustav Mahler

  Brother, Men, Musician

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• The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

  Gustav Mahler

  Used, Complexes

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• If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

  Charles Ives

  Love, Children, Nice

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