Composer Quotes

Why didn't they choose a Danish composer? - Hans Christian Andersen

While I recognize in the back of my mind that I am an occasionally brilliant guitar composer and arranger, innovator and player. - John Fahey

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

Whether one calls oneself conservative or revolutionary, whether one composers in a conventional or progressive manner, whether one tries to imitate old styles or is destined to express new ideas - one must be convinced of the infallibility of one's own fantasy and one must believe in one's own inspiration. - Arnold Schoenberg

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song. - Michael Bolton

When there are sequences when the eye, and not the ear, is the primary object, then the composer has his fling in the writing of incidental background music. In this branch of musical writing there have been some of the finest examples of orchestral music which our age has produced. - Erich Wolfgang Korngold

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them. - Luc Ferrari

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. - Gordon Getty

When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me. - Aaron Copland

When I opened the T-burg shop, I thought I was going into the electronic kit business... Then I met a composer who wanted to make electronic music on tape. We got together just for fun. - Robert Moog