Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've always been a composer dependent on texts.
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.
There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake.
There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.
Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work.
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.
I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.