Quotes by Composer Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked. Judy Holliday composer giving facts I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing. Kate Smith composer respect ideas Freddie Bryant is a brilliant young guitarist and composer. Kenny Burrell composer brilliant young It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best. Leo Ornstein composer play mean To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both. Leonard Bernstein composer broadway gay When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer. Leonard Bernstein conductor composer If you're a good composer, you steal good steals. Leonard Bernstein composer stealing ifs I'm not an intellectual composer. Les Baxter composer intellectual What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven. Ludwig van Beethoven composing-music composer birth It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer. Ludwig van Beethoven composer power-of-music states Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn. Ludwig van Beethoven composer i-can stills Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb. Ludwig van Beethoven handel composer tombs I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day. Matt Groening classical-composers composer pops I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little. Maurice Ravel composer worst littles [Composers] Mark [Shaiman] and Scott [Wittman] are unreal. Megan Hilty unreal composer mark You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is! Michael Tilson Thomas your-favorite composer music-is Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself. Michala Petri composer instruments thinking Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer. Michel Hazanavicius composer genius Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things. Milos Forman communist composer film To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant. Mitch Leigh redundant composer «1234567»