#compose

I just have to take my chances like any other composer. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#chances #composer #i #just #like

My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#bands #blood #challenge #composers #drum

There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#combine #commissioned #composer #composers #creator

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#composed #determine #difficult #either #element

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. ↗

— Graham Greene

#escape #fear #form #how #human

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally. ↗

— Ken Hill

#common #composers #connect #emotionally #goal

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. ↗

— John Andrew Holmes

#entire #entire universe #exception #others #remember

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#i #paint #write

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. ↗

— Thomas Beecham

#errand #should #tunes #whistle #write

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#about #composer #copland #felt #had