Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Composers are not all good conductors.
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.
There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.
I don't really call myself a composer.
The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.
I consider myself a composer.
I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.
I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.
The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.