Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
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Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.
quote by John Philip Sousa
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I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.
quote by John Corigliano
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I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.
quote by Jacques Ibert
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I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer.
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I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
quote by Richard Strauss
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I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.
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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.
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Unfinished Symphony for M lady Tara
The ultimate pastoral symphony,
beyond the skill of man to reproduce.
Of all the music I have heard I choose
the complex interweaving melody.
Of flowing brooks and the wind in the trees
all natural sounds are put to use.
No sound the great composer will refuse
to use for his exquisite harmonies.
The wind the waters and the tree s combine.
Supported by the voices of a host
of living things who add their voices to
form part of a symphony divine.
The great composer has no need to boast
about his compositions ever new.
12-Dec-08
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poem by Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg
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That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.
quote by David Amram
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I'm not an intellectual composer.
quote by Les Baxter
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Daybreak in Alabama
When I get to be a composer
I'm gonna write me some music about
Daybreak in Alabama
And I'm gonna put the purtiest songs in it
Rising out of the ground like a swamp mist
And falling out of heaven like soft dew.
I'm gonna put some tall tall trees in it
And the scent of pine needles
And the smell of red clay after rain
And long red necks
And poppy colored faces
And big brown arms
And the field daisy eyes
Of black and white black white black people
And I'm gonna put white hands
And black hands and brown and yellow hands
And red clay earth hands in it
Touching everybody with kind fingers
And touching each other natural as dew
In that dawn of music when I
Get to be a composer
And write about daybreak
In Alabama.
poem by Langston Hughes
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I just have to take my chances like any other composer.
quote by Gordon Getty
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I'm not an architectural composer.
quote by Harrison Birtwistle
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Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer.
quote by Richard Ernst
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I am but an architectural composer.
quote by Alexander Jackson Davis
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To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.
quote by Gustav Mahler
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I've always been a composer dependent on texts.
quote by David Del Tredici
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Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist.
quote by John Eaton
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I think a composer is always interested in his last work.
quote by Gyorgy Legeti
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My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
quote by Gianni Versace
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