Famous quotes by Composers

"I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it"

Luc Ferrari, Composer

"Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer"

Luc Ferrari, Composer

"With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible"

Luc Ferrari, Composer

"Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world"

Charles Ives, Composer

"But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense"

Charles Ives, Composer

"Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth"

Charles Ives, Composer

"One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife"

Charles Ives, Composer

"You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things"

Luc Ferrari, Composer

"I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too"

Luc Ferrari, Composer

"Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology"

Luc Ferrari, Composer

"There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life"

Charles Ives, Composer

"If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven"

Charles Ives, Composer

"There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them"

David Amram, Composer

"The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty"

David Amram, Composer

"The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in"

David Amram, Composer

"Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture"

David Amram, Composer

"I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature"

David Amram, Composer

"I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era"

David Amram, Composer

"I think art can reflect tragedy"

John Corigliano, Composer

"I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon"

Fritz Kreisler, Composer

"When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously"

David Amram, Composer

"We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life!"

David Amram, Composer

"The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge"

John Corigliano, Composer

"The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past!"

John Corigliano, Composer

"I'm glad I won it, because when I grew up, the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted, and I was like that too"

John Corigliano, Composer

"The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear"

Fritz Kreisler, Composer

"One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line, which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way"

Fritz Kreisler, Composer

"That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important, by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there"

David Amram, Composer

"We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it"

Fritz Kreisler, Composer

"The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure"

Fritz Kreisler, Composer

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