Composer Quotes

You're not limited to a song structure, as you are in pop music. For a song, you've got an intro, a chorus, a bridge, a verse, a chorus, et cetera, and you're done. This is completely open to going left or right at any point. A scoring composer isn't bound to any genre. - Scott Gordon

You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer. - Cliff Martinez

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

You become what the composer asks you to become. - Joshua Bell

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award. - John Corigliano

Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography. - Graeme Murphy

Working in television, you really need a composer who can work in many styles especially when you're working in comedy. Stockdale can do anything. - Penn Jillette

With the river right down the street here and the whole idea of Sarah Orne Jewett, I thought it would be fitting to commission a composer to set her texts to music. - Harry Moon

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