A Quote by James Tenney

All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.

James Tenney

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Being Composers Kept Musicians People Professional Sense

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James Tenney
American - Composer
Born: August 10, 1934

It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, empathetic musicians, who are great individually but who also have a great sense for cooperation and collaboration, great listeners as well as great players.

Joshua Redman

... we weren't very professional; she could have gone to almost any town and put together a smoother ensemble, but we were pioneers, and professional musicians probably wouldn't have come up with what we did ... professional musicians probably wouldn't have given Janis Joplin the space to be herself, which was probably our greatest gift to her

Sam Andrew

I was starting a group of musicians and we had a group of young composers in Finland back in the '70s, and the real conductors, the professional conductors at the time were not interested in our stuff.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

With El Sistema, you can create orchestras everywhere; then they can decide whether they want to become professional musicians. The aim is not only to create musicians, but to create people.

Juan Diego Florez

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

James Cook

Even the strictest religious person from the strictest religious sect allows a little levity. Today, they congratulate you for carrying the Christian message into the comics.

Bil Keane

Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment

Jacques Barzun

I am getting to work with some good musicians, artistes, and composers.

Mohit Chauhan

Time is the main subject for any musicians, music writers, composers.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.

Thomas Beecham

Musicians, actors, writers - we're all neurotic, odd people who've lucked into accidental careers. So I just don't like being around public figures with that sense of entitlement, it just seems unhealthy, and it strips so much potential for them to develop as a human being.

Moby

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

Wynton Marsalis

Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema.

Halsey

I am compared to other classical musicians, but most of them perform songs from other people, and most of those composers belong to another era.

Ludovico Einaudi

I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.