Top 403 Composers Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
If we want to share the message of the composers, to give good things back to humanity, we have to dig deep while we can.
Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.
I'm blessed to be working with wizards like Vishal Bhardwaj as well as many young composers.
I can say, with a little arrogance, that I could be an actor, a cameraman, a writer, but composers are the most mysterious people.
A lot of composers I know hate temp scores because people get attached to them.
I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.
I admire Turgenev, Camus, Proust and Shakespeare, but I've also learnt a lot about writing from composers and artists.
It's good that Bollywood is changing and directors are trying out Pakistani singers as composers.
You know, my career hasn't exactly been the sort of thing that usually happens to film composers, but I sure am glad it happened to me.
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.
I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.
My favourite composers are Vishal Shekhar, AR Rahman, Shankar Ehsaan-Loy.
What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression.
Unfortunately, we have very few female composers in our country, but Sneha Khanwalkar, Alokananda Dasgupta, and Jasleen Royal are forces to reckon with.
A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.
Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.
The team at ASCAP is a genuine family, and I am proud to be part of an organization that is home to so many legendary songwriters and composers.
Many great composers have died in poverty. I have not faced hardships, like having to struggle for food, thanks to reasonable producers.
Upcoming composers in Bollywood are falling prey to the volume game, without caring what they are doing to the history of Indian music, and that's something to worry about.
The composers know what they want from you. So as a vocalist you have got to trust them and surrender yourself to their vision.
Composers, artists, actors, singers - all of them, I think, unconsciously learn from others. I'm sure it's not conscious, but they can't help it.
Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public cold spring water.
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!
Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
I have always loved composers who have been connected with folk traditions of popular music.
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
Our job as composers becomes easy when directors have a good knowledge of music and know exactly what they want.
composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.
Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.
A mission that comes from the heart to promote these things and to encourage composers to write, then of course they should do it. And there are more than a few pianists these days who do this, fortunately.
I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.
I got my first break in 'Bhootnath,' solely on my credit, and went on to sing for around 20 films for all the leading music composers.
What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.
The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing
A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.
In the beginning, many composers didn't have confidence in me. It's not their fault. It only comes after you've delivered your first hit.
Tom Kitt aside - he's in his own category with me, of course - Stephen Sondheim is one of my all-time favorite composers.
All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.
I've seen composers work on 30 films at one go. So, eight or even 10 albums in a year is no big deal.
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
I'm the benefactor of people who are doing so much hard work championing women composers.
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing.
Two pieces of advice for young composers: Go away during technical rehearsals. And do not have a back operation.
I think the work process' - composers do not get enough time to make a good song. That's the one thing which needs to be changed.
Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit... that's it.
By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.
Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply.
I came across a lot of young composers who have got passion but lack experience. I want to help them out.
I always loved the motion picture scores and the great film composers like Elmer Bernstein.
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.
Pandit Pran Nath has given much of his later life to America and Europe and has influenced many of our younger composers.
One day the 'Maple Leaf' will make me King of Ragtime Composers.
Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.
For years, my favorite composers had been Monteverdi and Bach. Then I began to rediscover the 19th century, see it from another perspective.
I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
