#composer

Many contemporary composers have been building walls of sounds following their own clever devices. But then, who lives inside those rooms? ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

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The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself. ↗

— Lindsey Stirling

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I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer. ↗

— Tori Amos

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I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please. ↗

— Samuel Barber

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I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's also important to do the music of Handel, one of the greatest composers of the 18th century. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

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We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. ↗

— Hector Berlioz

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My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily. ↗

— Gianni Versace

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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

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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders. ↗

— Brian Eno

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