Quotes of: Classical-composers Keyword

The heating systems composed works in the style of John Cage.

Cloud Atlas

Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic.

Master of Stupidity

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

John Drinkwater

I'm blessed to be working with wizards like Vishal Bhardwaj as well as many young composers.

Sukhwinder Singh

You are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you.

Lee J. Colan

I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.

Marc Anthony

It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.

Morton Gould

Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope.

Where the Wasteland Ends

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

Milan Kundera

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.

David Amram

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

John Corigliano

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

Alberto Moravia

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.

John Corigliano

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

Vladimir Nabokov

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

Christopher Hitchens

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

Hanns Eisler

A person's life is over in 50, 100 years. But a company lives on through the people it is composed of, and SoftBank group has to survive even after I'm gone.

Masayoshi Son

There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

Frank Zappa

Composing is sort of an intuitive act. You have to put yourself in the right frame of mind.

Howard Shore

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

Harrison Birtwistle