#composer

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

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The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge. ↗

— John Corigliano

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You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights. ↗

— Elvis Costello

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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena. ↗

— Edgard Varese

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Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche. ↗

— George Crumb

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I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics. ↗

— George Crumb

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Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

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When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then. ↗

— Gordon Getty

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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

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