#composer

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer. ↗

— Marilyn Horne

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When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#composers #different #different elements #elements #everything

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed. ↗

— Alfred Brendel

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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

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Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due. ↗

— James Cook

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Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers. ↗

— John Eaton

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I am but an architectural composer. ↗

— Alexander Jackson Davis

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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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That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer. ↗

— Morton Gould

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I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect. ↗

— Charlie Haden

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