#composer

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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Composers are not all good conductors. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#conductors #good

A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver with his license revoked. That would throw anybody for a loop, don't you think? But Beethoven didn't let it get to him. Sure, he must have been a little depressed at first, but he didn't let misfortune get him down. It was like, Problem? What problem? He composed more than ever and came up with better music than anything he'd ever written. I really admire the guy. Like this Archduke Trio--he was nearly deaf when he wrote it, can you believe it? What I'm trying to say is, it must be tough on you not being able to read, but it's not the end of the world. You might not be able to read, but there are things only you can do. That's what you gotta focus on--your strengths. Like being able to talk with the stone. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#composer #inspirational #reading #inspirational

Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art. ↗

— Robert Schumann

#composers #improvising #music #musicians #art

It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#color #composer #female #great #her

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

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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

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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. ↗

— Pablo Casals

#composers #everyone #everywhere #forget #greatest

Composers are always going back to the past. ↗

— Anne Dudley

#back #composers #going #past