#composer

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

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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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All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense. ↗

— James Tenney

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The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. ↗

— Ansel Adams

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I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media. ↗

— Milton Babbitt

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I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium. ↗

— Danny Elfman

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There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen! ↗

— J. J. Johnson

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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

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