Quotes about composer
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Fred Frith We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.
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There is a lot of things to weigh up when a transfer happens, and money is a big factor.
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When I was a young player, I would look at players and think, he does this well, and try and pick up good points from them, or he conducts himself well, I'll pick up on that.
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When composers say that music is a temporal art, I think that's true, but what is most fun in music is when you know that there are connections that are non-temporal. You can compare them with the unfolding of the piece again - you can compare the drama of the unfolding with the relationships that you remember.
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Brian Ferneyhough Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply.
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A. R. Rahman Sometimes, a remix is good because it reaches a whole new generation. But when it gets too much, it's irritating. Also, the original composer needs to be credited properly.
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A. R. Rahman I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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A. R. Rahman I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.
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Bill Viola When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.
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John Fahey While I recognize in the back of my mind that I am an occasionally brilliant guitar composer and arranger, innovator and player.
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Film composers are the most prolific music makers on this planet, and most of us are, like, losing our minds if we're doing five or more movies in a year.
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Anne Dudley Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.
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David Bowie Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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Gavin Bryars Philips did stipulate that Julian and I had to iron out our relationship. I had to could come up with something we would both be happy with.
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Sukhwinder Singh I have declared that I will work free of cost with those composers who are passionate about their work. Sohail Sen is one such lad, whose music in Banjaara has been liked a lot.
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Phil Collins As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation.
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Les Baxter I'm not an intellectual composer.
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Simon Rattle If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
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Thomas Beecham There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.
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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.
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David Henry Hwang If I do a play, it's my vision, and everybody else is working on the production to support that. If I do an opera, I feel like part of my job is to support that composer, to try and create something that allows the composer to do his or her best work. In movies, it's usually the director.
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Enya I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.
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Evelyn Glennie 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.
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Jonathan Gruber Great music can and should reach an extremely broad audience. When you walk into a retail store, you're blown away; it can be very intimidating to a newcomer. What the digital medium allows us to do is to focus attention on recordings, artists and composers whom we think will appeal to a lot of people, and break through a lot of the barriers that exist in the physical retail world.
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Igor Stravinsky Good composers don't borrow, they steal
notes composer
Igor Stravinsky Composers combine notes, that's all.
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H. L. Mencken Puccini - silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled.
chance composer
Gordon Getty I just have to take my chances like any other composer.
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Giuseppe Verdi 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.
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Carlisle Floyd Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.