Quotes by Composer Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge. Alban Berg composer music-is feelings Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual. Aldous Huxley composer music art I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background. Alex Prager composer musical names I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose. Alexander Borodin oblivion composer ashamed I am but an architectural composer. Alexander Jackson Davis composer architecture Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion? Alfred Schnittke accordions composer firsts Composers are always going back to the past. Anne Dudley composer past The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance. Ansel Adams composer score negative Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary. Anton Rubinstein composer call-me thinking The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors. Anton Seidl composer responsibility spirit Composers are not all good conductors. Anton Seidl conductor composer I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen. Antonio Damasio mahler composer writing A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those. Aphex Twin composer missions world The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants. Arthur Honegger composer modern want The first requirement for a composer is to be dead. Arthur Honegger composer requirements firsts It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music Ayumi Hamasaki composer difficult writing I have written six symphonies, they are smaller-scale works. I seem to emit my themes, work them out, combine and intertwine them, and then come to a close. I usually feel that there are no superfluous extras, but probably most composers feel that way about their works. Barbara Harbach composer extras Men have been in the forefront of music for centuries, and they have written glorious music, loved and appreciated by many. In some ways, men are still in the forefront. There is a lot of room for composers of all types of music by both men and women, nowadays. Barbara Harbach composer appreciated men For my qualifying concert, Helmut Walcha would not coach Charles-Marie Widor or any American compositions. In his defense, his forte was Germanic composers, and his forte was really a fortissimo! Barbara Harbach composition composer coaches It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach. Bela Bartok composer may believe 1234567»
