#composer

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#having #i #interested #itself #like

If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#another #brief #clusters #composer #four

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

#band #best #between #big #big band

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#arranger #composer #intention #make #moments

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#beautifully #beethoven #composers #days #harmony

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

#been #collaborating #commissioned #composers #i

A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it. ↗

— Mikhail Glinka

#composer #creates #music #nation #only

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that. ↗

— John Eaton

#composers #expecting #follow #get #i

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#few #his #imagination #limited #man

I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time. ↗

— Zoltan Kodaly

#anybody #colleagues #composers #decided #drop