Dinicu Composer Quotes

#1. I am proud to be able to claim that, from the age of nineteen, I've managed to earna living entirely as a composer. #Quote by Richard Rodney Bennett

#2. [Composers] Mark [Shaiman] and Scott [Wittman] are unreal #Quote by Megan Hilty

#3. I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me. #Quote by Frederic Chopin

#4. Every composer understands and uses the system of notation differently, and that's what makes you appreciate the trouble they go through in doing so. #Quote by Marc-Andre Hamelin

#5. I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog. #Quote by Ralph Vaughan Williams

#6. King David is a wonderful example of a well-balanced man who was a warrior fighting battles on some days and a gentle, harp-playing composer on other days. #Quote by Vicki Courtney

#7. If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief. #Quote by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#8. Matisse was my God. I'm a French artist, that's for sure. I am color-oriented and what you might call a composer. I am not pouring my guts out; I keep them inside. #Quote by Francoise Gilot

#9. Glazunov was the first to convince me that a composer must make the performers submit to his will, and not the other way around (...) The composer must orchestrate in the way he conceived his work, and not simplify his orchestration to please the performers. #Quote by Dmitri Shostakovich

#10. When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He could have no concern for mine and no exact conception of it. That answer is too personal to each man. But in giving himself what he wanted, he gave me a great experience. #Quote by Ayn Rand

#11. In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer. #Quote by Fede Alvarez

#12. Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach. #Quote by Karen DeCrow

#13. Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music. #Quote by Elliott Carter

#14. With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it's essential to slow down and read every word. Because one important thing that can be learned by reading slowly is the seemingly obvious but oddly underappreciated fact that language is the medium we use in much the same way a composer uses notes, the way a painter uses paint. I realize it may seem obvious, but it's surprising how easily we lose sight of the fact that words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted. #Quote by Francine Prose

#15. If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer. #Quote by Peter Maxwell Davies

#16. As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet I refuse to make political art. More often than not political art fails as politics, and all too often it fails as art. To reach its fullest power, to be most moving and most fully useful to us, art must be itself. #Quote by John Luther Adams

#17. I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my personality by dabbling in rock 'n' roll. #Quote by John Cale

#18. It's nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector's item. #Quote by Fred Astaire

#19. When I'm writing a play I hear it like music. I use the same indications that a composer does for duration. There's a difference, I tell my students, between a semi-colon and a period. A difference in duration. And we have all these wonderful things, we use commas and underlining and all the wonderful punctuation things we can use in the same way a composer uses them in music. And we can indicate, as specifically as a composer, the way we want our piece to sound. #Quote by Edward Albee

#20. Copland was the first important American classical composer to go to work for Hollywood. #Quote by Terry Teachout

#21. The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much the heart of the world they've created on film. #Quote by Howard Shore

#22. And you rage and scream and reach through the Force to crush the shadow who has destroyed you, but you are so far less now than what you were, you are more than half machine, you are like a painter gone blind, a composer gone deaf, you can remember where the power was but the power you can touch is only a memory, and so with all your world-destroying fury it is only droids around you that implode, and equipment, and the table on which you were strapped shatters, and in the end, you cannot touch the shadow. In the end you don't even want to. In the end, you do not even want to. In the end, the shadow is all you have left. Because the shadow understands you, the shadow forgives you, the shadow gathers you unto itself - And within your furnace heart, you burn in your own flame. #Quote by Matthew Woodring Stover

#23. The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed. #Quote by Albert Murray

#24. I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in the style of songs that I grew up with. #Quote by Tom Lehrer

#25. A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time. #Quote by Frank Zappa

#26. Who needs to be a Phoenix for rebirth? One simply requires themselves and an instrument to clean the slate and start over, perhaps create their own world where everything is better.. #Quote by TheBakaViolinist

#27. Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual. #Quote by Aldous Huxley

#28. Three of tonights performers are members of the group Return To One, whose album Hopes and Dreams I heard for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Blown away by the album, I called Nathan Hubbard, the drummer and composer for the group, and with whom I've played on a couple of Trummerflora-related occasions, and asked him to round up several of his Return To One cohorts for tonight's show. I can't recommend their album highly enough; please pick up a copy ... #Quote by Mike Keneally

#29. As an artist suffering from insomnia and working from my apartment, I had an artistic freedom to explore and create awesome stuff. I wore a robe and slippers as my work dress code. These are the days when creativity is my best imaginary friend. And I was crazy enough to create what people would call masterpieces. #Quote by Shawn Lukas

#30. What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music? #Quote by Charles Mingus

#31. I don't think they understand it's as important as math and science. It rounds you out as a person. I think it gives you a love of certain things. You don't have to become the next great composer. It's just nice to have heard certain things or to have seen certain things. It's part of being a human being. #Quote by Marvin Hamlisch

#32. Whether one calls oneself conservative or revolutionary, whether one composes in a conventional or progressive manner, whether one tries to imitate old styles or is destined to express new ideas -- whether one is a good composer or not -- one must be convinced of the infallibility of one's own fantasy and one must believe in one's own inspiration. ("Composition with Twelve Tones") #Quote by Arnold Schoenberg

#33. In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer. #Quote by Bob Fosse

#34. As a composer you want to tell musicians two completely contradictory things. You want to say, "Play exactly what I wrote, but bring your own thing to it." In a lot of ways they feel like opposites, but in a sense, my job is to cajole or encourage decisions that I approve of. #Quote by Nico Muhly

#35. If I were to die tomorrow, I think they'd say Newman 56, composer of the hit song, Short People. Jumped off a mountain today. #Quote by Randy Newman

#36. As a kid, I had a Beatles poster and a Bela Lugosi as Dracula poster, so both worlds always appealed to me. Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music has to be aggressive. You can't tiptoe around. It has to be incredibly focused dramatically - no time for second thoughts. #Quote by Christopher Young

#37. There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. #Quote by Arthur Honegger

#38. Pandit Pran Nath has given much of his later life to America and Europe and has influenced many of our younger composers. #Quote by Bernard Holland

#39. To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both. #Quote by Leonard Bernstein

#40. If I do a play, it's my vision, and everybody else is working on the production to support that. If I do an opera, I feel like part of my job is to support that composer, to try and create something that allows the composer to do his or her best work. In movies, it's usually the director. #Quote by David Henry Hwang

#41. Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours. #Quote by Gioachino Rossini

#42. I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please. #Quote by Samuel Barber

#43. Sometimes the clothes and scents we wear have more of us in them than we do ourselves.
The search for ideal lavender was like the search for that part of me that needed nothing more than a fragrance to emerge from the sleep of thousands. I searched for it the way I searched for my personal color, or for a brand of cigarettes, or for my favorite composer. Finding the right lavender would finally allow me to say "Yes, this is me. Where was I all this time? #Quote by Andre Aciman