Quotes by Composer Many composers today don't know what the human throat is. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf composerthroattoday If you're a composer, there's never a moment you're not working. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich composermomentsifs Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing. Elmer Bernstein working-nowcomposerideas I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie. Enya classical-composerslisten-to-your-heartcomposer The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified. Eric Whitacre composergoing-awayfeelings The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Ernest Newman composerinspireddoe A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out. Ernest Newman composermusicfound I feel very free and very happy to be a composer. Esa-Pekka Salonen composervery-happyfeels A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos. Evelyn Glennie composerpiecesthinking Human warmth is perhaps the most lacking in a composer who lives his life in a recording studio. Fabio Frizzi warmthcomposer Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his. Franz Liszt brahmscomposervariation I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with. Fred Frith composerinfluencethinking A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time. Frank Zappa fragmentscomposerjobs Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time. Gavin Bryars composerfrancehard-times I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer. Gavin Bryars composernameswriting Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. Gian Carlo Menotti composeroperafeels My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily. Gianni Versace composerfashiondream Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music. Giuseppe Verdi composermeanpast I just have to take my chances like any other composer. Gordon Getty reincarnationcomposerchance To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole. Gustav Mahler composerwholejudging«1234567»
