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• Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Composer, Great

• I’m still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

  Dhani Harrison

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  Tags in Composer, Maybe

• I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I’m working.

  Daniel Handler

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  Tags in Composer, Listen

• I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.

  David Del Tredici

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  Tags in Like, Composer

• 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.

  David Del Tredici

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  Tags in Time, World, Composer

• I’ve always been a composer dependent on texts.

  David Del Tredici

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• I’m trying to interpret the film through the director’s head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

  Danny Elfman

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  Tags in Composer

• Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules… Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

  Brian Greene

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• Composers dialogue – and obsessively, bitterly argue – with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

  Brian Ferneyhough

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• Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply.

  Brian Ferneyhough

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• The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

  Benjamin Britten

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  Tags in Composer, Idea

• My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.

  Gianni Versace

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Composer

• Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

  Gian Carlo Menotti

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  Tags in Composer, Intent

• I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we’re always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time.

  George Shearing

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  Tags in Music, Composer

• If I weren’t a director, I would want to be a film composer.

  Steven Spielberg

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  Tags in Composer, Director

• I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

  Gavin Bryars

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  Tags in Self, Composer

• The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.

  Claudio Monteverdi

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  Tags in Foundation, Composer

• I was meant to be a composer and will be I’m sure. Don’t ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football – please.

  Samuel Barber

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  Tags in Composer

• 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 Cook Carter Jr

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  Tags in Person, Personality, Composer, Music

• You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York… three nights.

  Elvis Costello

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Composer, Reputation