#composer

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

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The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. ↗

— Ernest Newman

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I feel very free and very happy to be a composer. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

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I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer. ↗

— Tori Amos

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Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary. ↗

— Anton Rubinstein

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Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment? ↗

— Franz Schubert

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Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

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I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing. ↗

— Kate Smith

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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity. ↗

— Kate Smith

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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