#composers

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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Sincere composers believe in God. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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I have tremendous respect for film composers. ↗

— John Corigliano

#film #i #respect #tremendous #tremendous respect

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

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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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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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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Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now. ↗

— Neville Marriner

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Handel's yearning for independence from the traditional chains of patronage and his persistence in monitoring his productions resulted with unique developments concerning Baroque 'opera seria'; however, paradoxically his personal obsession to obtain complete artistic freedom generated disastrous side-effects that eventually impeded the progress of opera in London. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

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Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in. ↗

— Mose Allison

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