#composers

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics. ↗

— George Crumb

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I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that. ↗

— John Eaton

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I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups. ↗

— David Del Tredici

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I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions. ↗

— Alex North

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Many composers today don't know what the human throat is. ↗

— Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

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I have tremendous respect for film composers. ↗

— John Corigliano

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The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision. ↗

— Stewart Copeland

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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. ↗