Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
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Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
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I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.
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Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
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Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.
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I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.
Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in.
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I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.
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So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.
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I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
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Composers are not all good conductors.
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Composers are always going back to the past.
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Sincere composers believe in God.
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Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.
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Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
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Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.
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I have tremendous respect for film composers.
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In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
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