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'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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Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
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Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
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The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me.
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We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We don't do too many modern composers, although we include songs from Billy Joel and other writers like him.
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But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places.
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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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I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time.
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Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.
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Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
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I have tremendous respect for film composers.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.
In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.
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