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An eminent Iranian composer, Pezhman Mosleh, has honored me with this gift (the piece of On the Threshold). – Dr. Irvin Yalom	added by Best-Quotes 3 years ago
I've received many tributes but none touched me as yours did. you're both a musician and a very fine poet. An eminent Iranian composer, Pezhman Mosleh, has honored me with this gift (the piece of On the Threshold) - irv yalom – Dr. Irvin Yalom	added by Best-Quotes 3 years ago
It has moved beyond me. It is good in a way, once a song becomes a standard, it no longer belongs to the composer but to the person who interprets it. – Manu Dibango	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Here we have a short, not great, piece by Mozart, but at least something that really sheds new light on his daily life as an opera composer in Vienna. – Ulrich Leisinger	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You have to go to the composer himself, or his heirs, play the work, and get his approval, that, he never did. – Peter Ross	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Finally the people here in Bayreuth understand that this is the most important composer of the world and he has to have a museum and that is done now, so it's great. – Germany Richard Wagner	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
To be honest, all they have in common is the composer, that's in fact where the interest and the challenge of the production lies -- to stage three different stories while still creating an arc of tension among them. – Mikhail Tatarnikov	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by a cinematographer or scored by a composer. The properties of real life and the properties of drama have almost nothing to do with each other. The difference between writing about reporters and being a reporter is the same as the difference between drawing a building and building a building. – Aaron Sorkin	Found on CNN 10 years ago
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own. – Claude Lévi-Strauss	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me. – Jean Genet	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics. – May Sarton	added by anonymous 11 years ago
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. – Frank Zappa	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. – Igor Stravinsky	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. – Hector Berlioz	added by anonymous 15 years ago
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. – Leonard Bernstein	added by anonymous 15 years ago
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. – Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky	added by anonymous 15 years ago
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. – Arthur Honegger	added by anonymous 15 years ago

An eminent Iranian composer, Pezhman Mosleh, has honored me with this gift (the piece of On the Threshold).

– Dr. Irvin Yalom

added by Best-Quotes
3 years ago

I've received many tributes but none touched me as yours did. you're both a musician and a very fine poet. An eminent Iranian composer, Pezhman Mosleh, has honored me with this gift (the piece of On the Threshold) - irv yalom

– Dr. Irvin Yalom

added by Best-Quotes
3 years ago

It has moved beyond me. It is good in a way, once a song becomes a standard, it no longer belongs to the composer but to the person who interprets it.

– Manu Dibango

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Here we have a short, not great, piece by Mozart, but at least something that really sheds new light on his daily life as an opera composer in Vienna.

– Ulrich Leisinger

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You have to go to the composer himself, or his heirs, play the work, and get his approval, that, he never did.

– Peter Ross

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Finally the people here in Bayreuth understand that this is the most important composer of the world and he has to have a museum and that is done now, so it's great.

– Germany Richard Wagner

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

To be honest, all they have in common is the composer, that's in fact where the interest and the challenge of the production lies -- to stage three different stories while still creating an arc of tension among them.

– Mikhail Tatarnikov

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by a cinematographer or scored by a composer. The properties of real life and the properties of drama have almost nothing to do with each other. The difference between writing about reporters and being a reporter is the same as the difference between drawing a building and building a building.

– Aaron Sorkin

Found on CNN
10 years ago

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

– Claude Lévi-Strauss

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

– Jean Genet

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.

– May Sarton

added by anonymous
11 years ago

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

– Frank Zappa

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

– Igor Stravinsky