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Composer Quotes

I’m into horror pictures because I love the fear of being alone in the dark, and I’d recommend that to any composer who wants to work in this genre Picture Quote #1

I’ve always been fascinated by music and sounds. I was lucky to receive proper classical training as an orchestra player and I’m always learning as a composer, looking to create new flavors and colors Picture Quote #1

I’ve been kind of listening to the composer Britten and his rendition of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’ The opening track is a choral section where all the weird fairies, who are played by kids in the production, sing. It’s a crazy opening melody and chord sequence - really amazing Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt’s Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing non-piano music at the piano Picture Quote #1

Each composer has their own language, and I try to meet the challenges, even if at first sight, they appear impossible Picture Quote #1

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I think that being a film composer, someone that gets it and actually applies the music, it allows you to open up a spectrum of feeling. You’re now allowed to approach the music from an audio visual perspective Picture Quote #1

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It’s still their ball game. It’s their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director’s impulses Picture Quote #1

I think it’s good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear Picture Quote #1

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart’s blood of the composer Picture Quote #1

I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination of a great book and a great filmmaker, what could be better for the composer? Picture Quote #1

My entire education in music was in reading interviews with bands like Stereolab and finding out about Brazilian music or a Romanian composer. You expose yourself to what people you look up to admire Picture Quote #1

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There’s no card, business card, better than a compact disc for a composer. It doesn’t half impress people and they get a long way on it ... these composers they will get more performances, more commissions, more recognition just by having that disc Picture Quote #1

As I get older, I’m slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you’ll see me be quieter just so that people will listen Picture Quote #1

My mother, Minuetta Kessler, was a concert pianist and composer who performed at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall Picture Quote #1

In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play Picture Quote #1

[Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don’t think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could translate one of my tunes into that really beautiful chamber music Picture Quote #1

Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the hero that had been the composer, the hero now was the performer, and especially the conductor Picture Quote #1

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As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it’s Bach. I love Paganini, too, the Italian composer who would break strings during a performance and finish playing on just one string. Someone I would have loved to play with is Jimi Hendrix Picture Quote #1

I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl Picture Quote #1

My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O’Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer Picture Quote #1

My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the standards of today’s college graduates and Ph.D.’s, but he had a deep interest in questions of science and questions of the universe Picture Quote #1

Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations Picture Quote #1

A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express different storytelling ideas Picture Quote #1

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The scientist is also a composer... You could think of science as discovering one particular thing - a supernova or whatever. You could also think of it as discovering this whole new way of seeing the world Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

In India, I have been called a ‘destroyer.’ But that is only because they mixed my identity as a performer and as a composer. As a composer I have tried everything, even electronic music and avant-garde. But as a performer I am, believe me, getting more classical and more orthodox, jealously protecting the heritage that I have learned Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

One of my heroes is a composer named James Bernard, and oh my God... I can still listen to his music today and be stirred and moved by it. But I think that you fall in love with... Well, again, when you’re young, it really is more powerful. Much more terrifying Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I’m into horror pictures because I love the fear of being alone in the dark, and I’d recommend that to any composer who wants to work in this genre. (Composer Quotes) I’ve always been fascinated by music and sounds. I was lucky to receive proper classical training as an orchestra player and I’m always learning as a composer, looking to create new flavors and colors. (Composer Quotes) I’ve been kind of listening to the composer Britten and his rendition of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’ The opening track is a choral section where all the weird fairies, who are played by kids in the production, sing. It’s a crazy opening melody and chord sequence - really amazing. (Composer Quotes) 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. (Composer Quotes) As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt’s Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing non-piano music at the piano. (Composer Quotes) Each composer has their own language, and I try to meet the challenges, even if at first sight, they appear impossible. (Composer Quotes) I think that being a film composer, someone that gets it and actually applies the music, it allows you to open up a spectrum of feeling. You’re now allowed to approach the music from an audio visual perspective. (Composer Quotes) So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It’s still their ball game. It’s their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director’s impulses. (Composer Quotes) I think it’s good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear. (Composer Quotes) Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart’s blood of the composer. (Composer Quotes) I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination of a great book and a great filmmaker, what could be better for the composer? (Composer Quotes) My entire education in music was in reading interviews with bands like Stereolab and finding out about Brazilian music or a Romanian composer. You expose yourself to what people you look up to admire. (Composer Quotes) There’s no card, business card, better than a compact disc for a composer. It doesn’t half impress people and they get a long way on it ... these composers they will get more performances, more commissions, more recognition just by having that disc (Composer Quotes) As I get older, I’m slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you’ll see me be quieter just so that people will listen. (Composer Quotes) My mother, Minuetta Kessler, was a concert pianist and composer who performed at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall. (Composer Quotes) In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play. (Composer Quotes) [Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don’t think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could translate one of my tunes into that really beautiful chamber music. (Composer Quotes) Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the hero that had been the composer, the hero now was the performer, and especially the conductor. (Composer Quotes) As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it’s Bach. I love Paganini, too, the Italian composer who would break strings during a performance and finish playing on just one string. Someone I would have loved to play with is Jimi Hendrix. (Composer Quotes) I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl. (Composer Quotes) My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O’Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer. (Composer Quotes) My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the standards of today’s college graduates and Ph.D.’s, but he had a deep interest in questions of science and questions of the universe. (Composer Quotes) Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations. (Composer Quotes) A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express different storytelling ideas. (Composer Quotes) The scientist is also a composer... You could think of science as discovering one particular thing - a supernova or whatever. You could also think of it as discovering this whole new way of seeing the world. (Composer Quotes) 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. (Composer Quotes) In India, I have been called a ‘destroyer.’ But that is only because they mixed my identity as a performer and as a composer. As a composer I have tried everything, even electronic music and avant-garde. But as a performer I am, believe me, getting more classical and more orthodox, jealously protecting the heritage that I have learned. (Composer Quotes) 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. (Composer Quotes) One of my heroes is a composer named James Bernard, and oh my God... I can still listen to his music today and be stirred and moved by it. But I think that you fall in love with... Well, again, when you’re young, it really is more powerful. Much more terrifying. (Composer Quotes) 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. (Composer Quotes)

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