36 Quotes About Composers

There are only two types of composers: composing composers and decomposing composers.

Dietz and Schwartz have sort of fallen by the wayside a little bit, and they are up there with Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. They are the finest of the revue composers - their stuff is so good and so strong.

An interesting practice in music since the atonal period of the Viennese composers has been the widespread use of a few tiny pitch cells.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers where also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

This show will make you laugh, it will make you cry and will leave no question in your mind as to why Puccini is hailed as one of the greatest opera composers of all time.

The majority of the composers in Icebreaker III are not known outside their region.

With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.

It has been great fun to find these manuscripts and pull them together into this collection. I trust that what we are doing at the school will make it possible for Juilliard students and scholars to delve into the compositional processes of these great composers and share them with the rest of the world.