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My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
Ramesh Vinayakam is a maestro music composer and a dear friend, too.
Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.
I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.
Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!
Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.
You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.
Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.
Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography.
I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.
To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both.
A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.
If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character.
It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.
Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
It is quite normal these days to record a song in the absence of the composer.
Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
I think no composer knows he's creating a hit until the audience gives it a nod.
It should be a singer's quality to know what a composer wants and sing accordingly.
As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.
I'm a composer. I know nothing about money and commercial stuff. I just write music.
It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.
The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me.
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?
I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
I'm a very style-driven composer, and I like to give every project its own unique stamp.
The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins.
When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.
Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary.
I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.
I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally.
The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.
The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.
When you are known as this cutting-edge composer all the time... it's no longer cutting-edge.
Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.
I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.
It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.
Human warmth is perhaps the most lacking in a composer who lives his life in a recording studio.
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.