Quotes of: Classical-composers Keyword

Sometimes, a remix is good because it reaches a whole new generation. But when it gets too much, it's irritating. Also, the original composer needs to be credited properly.

A. R. Rahman

You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.

Cliff Martinez

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Edgar Quinet

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

Mahatma Gandhi

I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.

Cornelia Funke

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. -Frank Zappa, composer, musician, film director (1940-1993)

Frank Zappa

I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.

Gavin Bryars

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

Charles Ives

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

Camille Paglia

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

Jean de la Bruyere

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

Carter Burwell

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.

George Murray

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

John Philip Sousa

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

Daniel Handler

Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist.

John Eaton

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.

John Eaton

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

H. L. Mencken

Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there.

Kurt Masur

I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.

Park Chan-wook

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

Bruce Cockburn