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Composer Quotes

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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
Ludwig van Beethoven

'One's identity is predetermined by lineage; my identity, however, is something I have crafted for myself. There will always be a multitude of individuals with titles; but there shall ever only be one Beethoven.'
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The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.
Eric Whitacre

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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

4.
Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.
David Del Tredici

5.
We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.
Cecilia Bartoli

6.
I am but an architectural composer.
Alexander Jackson Davis

7.
To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both.
Leonard Bernstein

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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

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A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.
Aphex Twin

10.
The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
Ernest Newman

11.
Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.
Ludwig van Beethoven

12.
Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
Dmitri Shostakovich

13.
Music was not invented by the composer, but found.
Nadia Boulanger

14.
When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.
Leonard Bernstein

15.
Freddie Bryant is a brilliant young guitarist and composer.
Kenny Burrell

16.
My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
Gianni Versace

17.
I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography.
Pierre Boulez

18.
I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.
Alexander Borodin

19.
A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.
Ernest Newman

20.
He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.
Oscar Peterson

21.
There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.
Thomas Beecham

22.
Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.
James Cook

23.
A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.
Evelyn Glennie

24.
Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary.
Claude Debussy

25.
The present day composer refuses to die.
Edgard Varese

26.
The composer makes plans, music laughs.
Morton Feldman

27.
I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.
Enya

28.
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!
Michael Tilson Thomas

29.
It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.
Ludwig van Beethoven

30.
I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
Edgard Varese

31.
The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins.
Hans von Bulow

32.
Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
Franz Liszt

33.
I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.
Maurice Ravel

34.
Composers combine notes, that's all.
Igor Stravinsky

35.
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.
Alban Berg

36.
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
John Philip Sousa

37.
To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.
Gustav Mahler

38.
Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

39.
In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.
Hoagy Carmichael

40.
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
Gustav Mahler

41.
I just have to take my chances like any other composer.
Gordon Getty

42.
composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.
Ned Rorem

43.
Composers are always going back to the past.
Anne Dudley

44.
I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
Kate Smith

45.
Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.
Ludwig van Beethoven

46.
I have tremendous respect for film composers.
John Corigliano

47.
The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
Arthur Honegger

48.
A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time.
Frank Zappa

49.
I'm not an intellectual composer.
Les Baxter

50.
I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.
Cornelia Funke