#composer

As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

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

— Ken Hill

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Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked. ↗

— Judy Holliday

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I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

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I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

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Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

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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

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In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer. ↗

— Elliott Carter

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Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer. ↗

— Richard Ernst

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Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist. ↗

— John Eaton

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