#composer

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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I am but an architectural composer. ↗

— Alexander Jackson Davis

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I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie. ↗

— Enya

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It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver. ↗

— Morton Gould

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Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. ↗

— Thomas Beecham

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Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. ↗

— Howard Dietz

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I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with. ↗

— Fred Frith

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Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

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I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style. ↗

— James Tenney

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

— Camille Paglia

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