Composers Quotes

“With the new technology that keeps entering the media, film composers are constantly being placed in new learning situations. Acknowledging this and realizing that one must keep up, I maintain, nonetheless, that the real creative power is in the mind and heart of the composer.”

“If you are going to hear the work of the world’s greatest composers, you will have to allow for a little murder here and there. […] Those who want justice can go to the police, but those who want something a little more interesting should go to the orchestra!”

“I have tremendous respect for film composers.”

“I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.”

“Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.”

“I am an arrogant and impatient listener but in the case of a few composers a very few when I hear a work I do not like I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.”

“History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.”

“The artists are the most powerful ones, the creators, first are the painters, working without words, second are the music composers, and third are the writers.”

“Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work.”

“Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.”