#composer

I'm not an architectural composer. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#composer #i

It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#color #composer #female #great #her

I'm not an intellectual composer. ↗

— Les Baxter

#i #intellectual

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did. ↗

— Richard Rodney Bennett

#being #chord #composer #decide #did

I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#classical composers #composers #great #hendrix #him

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#composer #favorite #fifth #find #his

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts. ↗

— Ken Burns

#facts #i #music #photographs #research

That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year. ↗

— John Zorn

#challenge #challenges #composer #doing #hundred

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. ↗

— Pablo Casals

#composers #everyone #everywhere #forget #greatest

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them. ↗

— Luc Ferrari

#contemporary #contemporary music #i #major #music