Top 403 Composers Quotes & Sayings

It's interesting: composers can be very funny ducks.

Composers combine notes, that's all.

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

As film composers, what we essentially do is fusion.

I think, you know, for someone who does play, let's say, old music or, you know, Baroque music or Renaissance music - and you know, and I do play a lot of that, obviously - engaging with new composers, engaging with young composers, is really exciting because it makes me look at people of the past in a very different way that they are also living, that there was a lot of subjectivity in the decisions that they were making.

Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.

Sincere composers believe in God.

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.

Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.

Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.

I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.

The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America.

Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors.

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

Composers and lyricists are not responsible for storyline and casting. One can imagine actors shouldering this responsibility, since they charge for half the film. But producers never ask actors to share the losses. Instead, they train their guns on composers and lyricists.

Composers are always going back to the past.

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

I think the tendency to paint composers or styles of music with too broad a brush - for example, identifying composers as writers of "simple" or "complex" music - has become increasingly problematic and is almost never productive.

I think that live shows are more important for singers than composers, because composers still get a lot of recognition as compared to a singer.

New Amsterdam Records, a new label run by composers, has begun documenting this hybrid music, with invigorating discs by the band itsnotyouitsme and the composers Corey Dargel and William Brittelle.

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

As improvisers, we're acting as composers in front of people.

For me, listening to Beethoven and Tchaikovsky in particular, there's an emotional aspect - very different kinds of emotional aspects from those two composers, nonetheless, very strong emotional aspects from both of those composers.

If somebody says, 'Well, what are your favorite composers?' really, what they are saying is, 'What are your favorite composers apart from Bach?' Because obviously, Bach is your favorite composer if you are involved in music at all.

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

Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel. They'd be strange teenagers if they didn't. But cross-pollinating happens too - Aphex Twin did more interesting things with electronic music than most trained composers, who seemed to approach samplers with undue caution and reverence in those early days.

Composers are not all good conductors.

I love to work with all composers as that gives an artist variety.

Brahms is one of my all-time favorite composers.

Good composers don't borrow, they steal

The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins.

In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.

Film music has a great history of composers and performers.

We love what we do. We're passionate about making music and as composers; that's just who we are.

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

When I came into films, I found a vacuum in the field of lyricists, writers and composers.

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

My advice to composers is, 'Try to reach 90, and everyone will love you.'

Communists love to make films about composers because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.

Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to break the rules.

The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.

I loved a lot of the romantic composers.

Most theatre people and composers are like research hounds.

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

There was this kind of dictatorship of the Darmstadt school, composers like Boulez and Stockhausen, who were very strict and orthodox. They would not allow other composers to write the music they wanted to write, and only a certain kind of music could be played.

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

[Composers] Mark [Shaiman] and Scott [Wittman] are unreal.

I have tremendous respect for film composers.

Composers are very individual creatures.

But it can be tough for new composers as directors tend to block you out.

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.

I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

It is such an honor to be one of the youngest composers to compose for an Amitabh Bachchan film.

In fact, if you take any group of scores, it's likely that fifty to sixty percent are going to be so much alike that it's difficult to tell any difference among them. But I sometimes wonder if that has more to do with the quality of the art that's being made. There are always those composers who are going to move toward whatever is currently in fashion, there are others who will deliberately attempt to go in another direction. And sometimes, there are composers who will see themselves as being outside the stream and not even try to present their music to the general public.

I love being part of the ASCAP family of songwriters and composers.