#composer

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

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I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England. ↗

— John Corigliano

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It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience. ↗

— Charles Ives

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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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Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer. ↗

— Marilyn Horne

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When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song. ↗

— Michael Bolton

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If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed. ↗

— Alfred Brendel

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Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due. ↗

— James Cook

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