#composer

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear. ↗

— Danica McKellar

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Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

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Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography. ↗

— Graeme Murphy

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But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience. ↗

— Charles Ives

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Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary. ↗

— Anton Rubinstein

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Composers are not all good conductors. ↗

— Anton Seidl

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There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake. ↗

— Bill Conti

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