Quotes by Composer I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer. Mitch Leigh composer given army The composer makes plans, music laughs. Morton Feldman composer plans laughing You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life. Mstislav Rostropovich composer color needs Music was not invented by the composer, but found. Nadia Boulanger composer music found composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations. Ned Rorem distortion composer thinking I'm a nut for Bach as a composer. Nina Simone composer nuts Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life. Nobuo Uematsu composition composer Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer. Ornette Coleman composer people thinking He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz. Oscar Peterson composer jazz musician If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer. Peter Maxwell Davies composer expecting caught As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines. Phil Collins composer machines drummer I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography. Pierre Boulez composer biographies firsts Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly! Rachel Hartman composer court procrastination Both costume and fashion are about telling a story, except that in a ballet the story has already been written by the composer or the librettist. Raf Simons composer ballet fashion A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation. Ralph Vaughan Williams composer nations musical I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally. Richard Meale composing composer mean I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did. Richard Rodney Bennett tall chords composer I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it. Sarah Brightman interpreter composer The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer. Signe Baumane composer comedy tragedy If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong. Simon Rattle composer piano music «1234567»
