#composer

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

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I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts. ↗

— Ken Burns

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That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year. ↗

— John Zorn

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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. ↗

— Pablo Casals

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Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.' ↗

— Ornette Coleman

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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

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I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer. ↗

— Robert Patterson

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Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours. ↗

— Gioachino Rossini

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Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?' ↗

— Alfred Schnittke

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Many composers today don't know what the human throat is. ↗