#composer

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Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.


Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau


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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.


Brian Eno


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


Carter Burwell


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My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.


Jane Campion


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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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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.


Edgard Varese


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Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.


George Crumb


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I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.


George Crumb


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There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.


Arthur Honegger


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Having considered Handel's tumultuous opera career and his first term at Covent Garden in the 1730s, perhaps we may dare to suggest he was one of the foremost pioneers in establishing autonomy within the traditional system of music patronage, notwithstanding his efforts to become an independent impressario often proved disappointing.


E.A. Bucchianeri


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