Famous quotes by Composers

"The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"Improvisation is terribly haphazard"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity"

Burt Bacharach, Composer

"I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls"

Burt Bacharach, Composer

"Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn"

Burt Bacharach, Composer

"It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am"

Burt Bacharach, Composer

"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of"

Burt Bacharach, Composer

"Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football"

Burt Bacharach, Composer

"A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't"

Burt Bacharach, Composer

"The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important"

Burt Bacharach, Composer

"Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember"

Burt Bacharach, Composer

"I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong"

Burt Bacharach, Composer

"I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students"

Burt Bacharach, Composer

"It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask, isn't it? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn't take place and we just saw each other socially over the years, so we were friends"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow"

Toru Takemitsu, Composer

"Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives"

Bruno Walter, Composer

"The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, "No.""

Aaron Copland, Composer

"Superstar was made so early in my career, I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas, but I don't. I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now, of course, which is different in my experiences, is that you are getting things planted in the Net by people about the Woman in White on the Net. That's not a nice change"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"I mean, I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

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