Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer, Pianist
"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven."
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Composer
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Leonard Bernstein
Composer, Conductor
"To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both."
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer, Pianist
"Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn."
Leonard Bernstein
Composer, Conductor
"When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer."
Oscar Peterson
Jazz Pianist
"He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz."
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"It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer."
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"Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his."
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"I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing."
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"If you're a good composer, you steal good steals."
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"Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb."
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"I'm not an architectural composer."
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"The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance."
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"There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear to stop many times before they actually do."
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"Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing."
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"Im still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe."
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"Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual."
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"There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling."
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"I'm a nut for Bach as a composer."
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"Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer."
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"Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33")"
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