A Quote by Arthur Honegger

The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

Arthur Honegger

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Arthur Honegger
Swiss - Composer
March 10, 1892 - November 27, 1955

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

Arthur Honegger

Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience; that all his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning - the music itself, which, after all, is the whole reason for the conductor's existence.

Leonard Bernstein

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

Richard Strauss

If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

Ned Rorem

Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement andinterest from her... she's certainly the English composer who's influenced me themost.

Richard Rodney Bennett

Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!

Daniel Handler

To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-actor because you're working with the actors on screen.

Howard Shore

The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

Arthur Honegger

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

Dean Acheson

I pretended to be dead in front of a pig once, because I heard that they snuffle you, they try and wake you up, to check if you really are dead. And if you are dead, they eat you, but they like having a little prod first.

Vic Reeves

For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

While I was governor, 85 percent of the people on a form of welfare assistance in my state had no work requirement. I wanted to increase the work requirement.