#composer

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music. ↗

— Elliott Carter

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In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer. ↗

— Elliott Carter

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I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

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Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist. ↗

— John Eaton

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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it. ↗

— Hanns Eisler

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A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. ↗

— Tom Glazer

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I think a composer is always interested in his last work. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

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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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You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer. ↗