Famous quotes by Composers

"I did not start IC and Inteam to have control over my music. I had control before and after"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

Klaus Schulze

"How did this or that change my music? The only time I have to think about it is when an interviewer asks me that"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

Klaus Schulze

"To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears"

Burt Bacharach, Composer

"You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation"

Ennio Morricone, Composer

"There was a theft! But of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar"

Ennio Morricone, Composer

"We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something; you don't have to explain it"

Kevin Ayers, Composer

"That was something, as opposed to nothing"

Kevin Ayers, Composer

"No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me"

Thomas Beecham, Composer

Thomas Beecham

"Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle"

Thomas Beecham, Composer

Thomas Beecham

"The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes"

Thomas Beecham, Composer

Thomas Beecham

"Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away"

Thomas Beecham, Composer

Thomas Beecham

"These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people"

Kevin Ayers, Composer

"The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas"

Kevin Ayers, Composer

"Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it"

Thomas Beecham, Composer

Thomas Beecham

"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory"

Thomas Beecham, Composer

Thomas Beecham

"No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no, thank you, I prefer to live in Italy"

Ennio Morricone, Composer

"It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces"

Ennio Morricone, Composer

"But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"One experiments and has to choose always the best results"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

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