#composer

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

#composers #dance #ephemeral #kind #painters

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions. ↗

— Alex North

#conditions #decent #dreadful #expect #friday

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear. ↗

— John Corigliano

#because #begin #beginning #clear #composer

I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer. ↗

— Robert Patterson

#composer #computer #horn #i #i am

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

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

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

— Arthur Honegger

#dead #doubt #first #no doubt #requirement

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

#classical #classical music #composer #could #flexible

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

#award #been #broadway #come #composers

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. ↗

— Frank Zappa

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