Composer Quotes
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
Hector Berlioz
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The negative is comparable to the composer`s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
Ansel Adams
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If I weren`t a director, I would want to be a film composer.
Steven Spielberg
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[1965] For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He`s the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.
Frank Sinatra
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I don`t understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. A musician has to do it, a composer. He puts a lot of dots down and beautiful music comes out. And I think that students should be taught to visualize. Tha...
Alfred Hitchcock
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It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he perceives as a color, an emotion or mood is very abstract. A director tells you something he wants and then you have to run back to y...
Danny Elfman
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You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.
Elvis Costello
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You become what the composer asks you to become.
Joshua Bell
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Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?
Franz Schubert
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While I recognize in the back of my mind that I am an occasionally brilliant guitar composer and arranger, innovator and player.
John Fahey
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Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius` way of thinking, and could follow him.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I`d composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I`m the same composer I was then.
Alex Tagliani
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Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I`ve never been much of a theorist.
Alison Adams
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We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.
Cecilia Bartoli
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Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours
Gioacchino Rossini
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To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.
Dirk Benedict
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To judge a composer`s work, one must consider it as a whole.
Gustav Mahler
Source: brainyquote.com
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The question is figuring out the emotions of the composer, where he`s coming from, and then tapping into it the same way an actor would in approaching a role.
Joshua Bell
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The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
Gustav Mahler
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That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.
David Amram
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Strangely enough, in movie writing I`ve been more influenced by big bands than by any other film composer. The big bands of the `forties and then the carry-over into the modern jazz field - Basie, Ellington, all the way up to Mulligan - these are my influ...
Henry Mancini
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Sometimes you get real close, sometimes you don`t. Sometimes they drive you crazy. I think every composer does that. That`s a big part of the job.
Danny Elfman
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Sometimes I’ve listened to film scores and felt, `Did the composer phone that in?`
Patrick Doyle
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So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It`s still their ball game. It`s their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director`s impulses.
Danny Elfman
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Remember always that the composer`s pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.
John Philip Sousa
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Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, `I think of myself as a composer.`
Ornette Coleman
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Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, `I think of myself as a composer.`
Ornette Coleman
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My main concern is if this composer has been made aware of the fact that I`ve come clean in all of my cases. I killed in pure hate, robbing along the way. So if this person hasn`t, then I`d sure appreciate it if someone would inform him or her of it.
Aileen Wuornos
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My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
Gianni Versace
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It`s understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.
Michael Bolton
