Composer Quotes


You're not limited to a song structure, as you are in pop music. For a song, you've got an intro, a chorus, a bridge, a verse, a chorus, et cetera, and you're done. This is completely open to going left or right at any point. A scoring composer isn't bound to any genre. - Scott Gordon



You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer. - Cliff Martinez



You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights. - Elvis Costello



You become what the composer asks you to become. - Joshua Bell



You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award. - John Corigliano



Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography. - Graeme Murphy



Working in television, you really need a composer who can work in many styles especially when you're working in comedy. Stockdale can do anything. - Penn Jillette



With the river right down the street here and the whole idea of Sarah Orne Jewett, I thought it would be fitting to commission a composer to set her texts to music. - Harry Moon



Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment? - Franz Schubert



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