#composer

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. ↗

— Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

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The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision. ↗

— Stewart Copeland

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God is the composer; you are the song. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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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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There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. ↗

— Arthur Honegger

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I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

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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

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Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

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I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

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