#composer

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #composer




I'm not an intellectual composer.


Les Baxter


#i #intellectual

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.


Richard Rodney Bennett


#being #chord #composer #decide #did

I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.


Warren Zevon


#classical composers #composers #great #hendrix #him

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.


Luc Ferrari


#contemporary #contemporary music #i #major #music

I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer.


Stanley Clarke


#composer #film #good #good film #guy

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


Ornette Coleman


#composer #i #i always #i think #myself

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


#alert #anything #audience #aware #caught

Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.


Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau


#audience #composer #concerts #could #creative

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


Carlisle Floyd


#country #important #most #northeast #our

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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