Composer Quotes - Page 18

• Imagination creates reality.

  Richard Wagner

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Reality

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• Miranda [Hentoff] is a complete musician. She's a composer, a singer. She writes scripts along - with her projects. And she's a superb teacher. Her teaching pupils have ranged from Itzhak Perlman to Sting.

  Nat Hentoff

  Teacher, Teaching, Writing

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• The generation of composers that are just preceded me, people like [Karlheinz] Stockhausen, [Pierre] Boulez, and, well, [John] Cage for that matter,[Morton] Feldman ... That was a kind of experimental music that was very isolated. It had no real public.

  Philip Glass

  Real, People, Cages

  Source: thomasmoore.info

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• A few Disney TV composers had me pinch-hit writing some scoring cues to picture. Disney tapped me to be the composer for the underscore and song producer for this new show called "Phineas and Ferb."There is nothing like a successful animated show to get your chops up. You have to do every style - action, adventure, romantic, suspense, spy, poignant, rock, funk, big band - delivered on a deadline.

  Danny Jacob

  Song, Adventure, Writing

  Source: www.axs.com

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• The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the music director and composer. He cannot play each instrument, but he needs to understand and embody the sense of each part.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Play, Interesting, Needs

  Source: www.archdaily.com

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• The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Creativity, Directors, Building

  Source: www.archdaily.com

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• A film just doesn't involve actors, a director and a producer, there is also the cameraman, the sound engineer, the music composer, the lyric writer. So many people come together to make a film. When we all feel satisfied with the film that we have created it's a win for all of us.

  Aamir Khan

  Winning, People, Together

  Source: www.danielpillai.com

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• I had a really nice association with Richie DeRosa, a great musician, a great drummer and composer and arranger. And I had a number of classes with him.

  Jon Gordon

  Nice, Numbers, Class

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• [Phil wood] put on some [Igor] Stravinsky and say to follow the score, tell me to play me the opening to the Rite of Spring. Or, "I'm going to play you some 20th century obscure classical composer you don't know". Or, "Let's listen to some Charles Ives, let's sight read some Bartok violin duets", etc.

  Jon Gordon

  Spring, Sight, Play

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• As an example, there is a Japanese composer / singer whose name is Tanimura [Shinji]: he has composed a song entitled entitled "Kazeno Komoriuta" and I have recorded my piano adaptation of this song and honestly I couldn't expect that it would be so difficult and challenging for me to perform my piano version of this beautiful song.

  Richard Clayderman

  Beautiful, Song, Names

  Source: performancereviewed.com

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• It's got to feel, the pulse has to feel like this part of the world, the instrumentation has to be true to that, and so, between him, [composer] Mark Mancina and myself, we really chased that, while serving our story Moana].

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Pulse, Stories, World

  Source: deadline.com

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• Fortunately, I started very young, so I read music very well. And my favorite composers to play are Brahms and Mozart.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Play, My Favorite, Young

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a note. But I learned to play the piano and became pretty skillful at improvisation, especially after a drop or two.

  Conrad Aiken

  Play, Two, Piano

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• The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.

  Edward Albee

  Voice, Views, Might

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.47, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth.

  Claudio Monteverdi

  Modern, Bases

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• As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.

  Phil Collins

  Machines, Drummer, Composing

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Drummers get bored. You tell them to play something simple, and it gets more complicated as they do it. If they're not a composer, if they don't have any kind of investment in the music, they'll just add a bit there and another bit there, and you think no! Don't do that. So you end up using a drum machine.

  Phil Collins

  Simple, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.

  Nina Simone

  Nuts

  Source: boscarol.com

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• [Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could translate one of my tunes into that really beautiful chamber music.

  Leonard Cohen

  Beautiful, Thinking, Skills

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• Alan [Ferber] is a great trombonist and composer. I'm thankful that I got some associations like that through peers and former students. That's kind of what it is.

  Jon Gordon

  Peers, Association, Students

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• [We need] someone like Don Sickler, who is an amazing trumpet player and who is also a publisher and amazing producer and composer and arranger. There's a lot of ways you can make a contribution.

  Jon Gordon

  Player, Needs, Way

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• Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel. They'd be strange teenagers if they didn't. But cross-pollinating happens too - Aphex Twin did more interesting things with electronic music than most trained composers, who seemed to approach samplers with undue caution and reverence in those early days.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Teenager, Interesting, Important

  Source: thequietus.com

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• A lot of the so-called systems composers have this thing that the system is always right. You don't fiddle with it at all. Well, I don't think that. I think the system is as right as you judge it to be. If for some reason you don't like a bit of it you must trust your intuition on that. I don't take a doctrinaire approach to systems.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Judging, Intuition

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works - he has an idea and he writes it down, so there's one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there's another transmission loss. So he's involved with three information losses. Whereas what I nearly always do is work directly to the sound if it doesn't sound right. So there's a continuous loop going on.

  Brian Eno

  Writing, Loss, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• An artist makes something to be physically experienced by another person. It's a raw, freely chosen, interpersonal relationship between the maker and the viewer, so it's close to what a musical composer does, or a poet or a dancer. It is coming out of one's inner being.

  Philip Taaffe

  Artist, Dancer, Musical

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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