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Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.
Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.
You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.
There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.
Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.
Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography.
A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.
Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.
It is quite normal these days to record a song in the absence of the composer.
If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character.
Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
It should be a singer's quality to know what a composer wants and sing accordingly.
As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.
I'm a composer. I know nothing about money and commercial stuff. I just write music.
The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me.
I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
I'm a very style-driven composer, and I like to give every project its own unique stamp.
The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins.
When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.
Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary.
I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.
I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally.
The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.
When you are known as this cutting-edge composer all the time... it's no longer cutting-edge.
Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.
I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.
It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.
Human warmth is perhaps the most lacking in a composer who lives his life in a recording studio.
I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.
The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.
He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.
Being the composer of 'Minecraft' is basically like imagining the distance between earth and moon.
In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.
If you just want ten songs to fit somebody else's script, then I'm not really the composer for that.
Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!
I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.
I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety.
As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.
If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.