#composers

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

#circle #composers #guitar #guitarists #i

Composers are not all good conductors. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#conductors #good

Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful. ↗

— David Del Tredici

#best #composers #diverse #energy #iconoclastic

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old. ↗

— Robert Morris

#composers #contemporary #create #daunting #encouraging

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

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due. ↗

— James Cook

#due #gifted #musicians #rarely #received

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. ↗

— Brian Greene

#bend #classical #classical composers #composers #like

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

#black #composers #doing #ever #film

A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all? ↗

— Johannes Rau

#ago #asked #co-operative #composers #course

I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

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