#composers

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them. ↗

— Luc Ferrari

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Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today. ↗

— George Crumb

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Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments. ↗

— David Del Tredici

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Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked. ↗

— Judy Holliday

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Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. ↗

— Thomas Beecham

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When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists. ↗

— Andres Segovia

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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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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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