#composer

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then. ↗

— Gordon Getty

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A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

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A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it. ↗

— Mikhail Glinka

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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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I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

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I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups. ↗

— David Del Tredici

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If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances? ↗

— Charles Ives

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I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth. ↗

— Claudio Monteverdi

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I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer. ↗

— Ivor Novello

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