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I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it. -- Sarah Brightman
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds. -- John Philip Sousa
What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about. -- Twyla Tharp
I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts. -- Ken Burns
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes. -- Gustav Mahler
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. -- Gustav Mahler
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now. -- Neville Marriner
Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche. -- George Crumb
There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake. -- Bill Conti
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. -- Hanns Eisler
The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like. -- Jerome Kern
The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music. -- Steven Price
To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked. -- Dirk Benedict
Copland was one of the first American composers to forge a truly modern style of American classical music while also making use of American popular music - including jazz. -- Terry Teachout
Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music. -- Elliott Carter
Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach. -- Karen DeCrow
Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work. -- James Fenton
I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's also important to do the music of Handel, one of the greatest composers of the 18th century. -- Cecilia Bartoli
I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer. -- Nigel Kennedy
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. -- A. R. Rahman
Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself. -- Michala Petri
Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesnâ??t. -- Aaron Copland
Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual. -- Aldous Huxley
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is! -- Michael Tilson Thomas
Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life. -- Nobuo Uematsu
There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music. -- Pepe Romero
Fortunately, I started very young, so I read music very well. And my favorite composers to play are Brahms and Mozart. -- Condoleezza Rice
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also. -- Yo-Yo Ma
History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music. -- Michael P. Naughton
Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent. -- Charles Bukowski
Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it. -- Leonard Bernstein
What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done. -- Robert Moog
I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive. -- Marvin Hamlisch
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
I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment. -- David Edelstein
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience. -- Brian Eno
Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions. -- Alex North
I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine. -- Gordon Getty

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