A Quote by Krzysztof Penderecki

Chopin is a great composer who influenced many, many important composers. He was a great innovator, especially in harmony.

Krzysztof Penderecki

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Composer Composers Great Harmony Important Influenced Innovator Many

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Krzysztof Penderecki
Polish - Composer
November 23, 1933 - March 29, 2020

I have so many great friends, so many great memories, so many great pictures, so many great songs, so many great relationships with people. I definitely feel, for the last 15 years, that I spent my time very wisely. And that's a great thing to be able to look back at.

Nadine Coyle

I've been influenced by so many great people , like Sam Moore, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, so many great blues and soul artists that I completely revere. So it's strange for me, actually, to hear somebody say, 'Oh, I was deeply influenced by your music.'

Paul Rodgers

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

Vera Nazarian

Many composers are asked to come up with three great songs in ten days... But it's rare for us to pull that off. You cannot force the brain to make a great song and I'm very scared of doing bad work.

Amaal Mallik

The most important thing to remember is that the composer is a senior partner. You cannot force a subject on a composer if it doesn't inspire him. He has to take the lead, you are an enabler, and you are creating the enabling conditions under which he can write great music. Your words are secondary. Many librettists in opera collaborations in the past have forgotten this, or not known it, or refuse to accept it and tried to get out in front of the creative process and it just doesn't work that way.

Terry Teachout

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

Nobuo Uematsu

I'm so aware when you make a film, there are so many elements to get right. So many people with such important jobs. You know, it's terrible. I walk away from a film going, "The cinematography was great, wasn't it? But the music wasn't so good. The casting wasn't great."

Stuart A. Staples

What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people.

Vince Gilligan

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

For many years, I've always been attached to what they call the Great American Songbook, and Kern was a great leader of that because he had the classical training of Europe. He impressed all the greatest composers, like Cole Porter and Gershwin. They couldn't believe he was writing the songs he was writing.

Tony Bennett

When I was a little kid wanting to play music, it was because of people like Pete Johnson, Huey Smith, Allen Toussaint, Professor Longhair, James Booker, Art Neville ... there was so many piano players I loved in New Orleans. Then there was guys from out of town that would come cut there a lot. There was so many great bebop piano players, so many great jazz piano players, so many great Latin piano players, so many great blues piano players. Some of those Afro-Cuban bands had some killer piano players. There was so many different things going on musically, and it was all of interest to me.

Dr. John

The most important thing to keep in mind is the incredible diversity of talent that's out there - there are so many great actors from all over Asia, from Singapore and Hong Kong to the Philippines and Mainland China, not to mention many great Asian-American actors who are eager for fun and challenging roles.

Kevin Kwan

Many great composers have died in poverty. I have not faced hardships, like having to struggle for food, thanks to reasonable producers.

Ilaiyaraaja

Pandit Pran Nath has given much of his later life to America and Europe and has influenced many of our younger composers.

Bernard Holland

When I finally got together with Rostropovich as a student, he was very focused, almost entirely focused on the music itself, on what the composer had in mind and what he knew about the composer. Many of the works that I played for him had in fact been composed and written for him; he was often the first performer of these works, having known the composers personally.