#composer

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. ↗

— Ansel Adams

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

— Thomas Beecham

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The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping. ↗

— Benjamin Britten

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I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

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I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

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Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

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I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

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I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist. ↗

— Jacques Ibert

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The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer. ↗

— Charles Kettering

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I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

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