Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.
It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.
It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color.
I am but an architectural composer.
I consider myself a composer.
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety.
Scriabin, as you know, is a mystic composer. His music is supersensuous, superromantic, and supermysterious. Everything is super; it is all a little overboard. Anyway, my parents were pleased that I played for him.
I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.
I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.
I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.
Purcell is a composer who had a formative influence on British music - even The Who now cite him as an influence. There's an intense, dirty harmony, but there's a Louis XIV kind of elan and style, too. He had the melancholy DNA of our national folk heritage.
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.
Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.
John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.
The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.
I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style.
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.
Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
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.
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.
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.
The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.
Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.
I actually was a musician in college, a composer and singer, and really intended to be the second coming of Leonard Bernstein when I got out.
I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
I had done a cover of the song 'Nenani Neevani' and put it up on Sound Cloud, which Sunny M.R., the music composer of Rowdy Fellow, came across. He liked it and approached me for 'Yedho.'
I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.
