Quotes with composer

  • The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
  • When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the non-musician 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.

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  • Igor Stravinsky I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Igor Stravinsky A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • John Philip Sousa Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.
    John Philip Sousa
    American composer and conductor (1854 - 1932)
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  • Leonard Bernstein I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
    Leonard Bernstein
    American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer and pianist (1918 - 1990)
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  • Carter Burwell John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Carlisle Floyd Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Aileen Wuornos 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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  • Jean Genet Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Ansel Adams The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Ansel Adams The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Benjamin Britten The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
    Benjamin Britten
    English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913 - 1976)
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  • Charles F. Kettering The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Aaron Copland When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the non-musician 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
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Bill Viola When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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