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Two pieces of advice for young composers: Go away during technical rehearsals. And do not have a back operation.

~Andrew Lloyd Webber

Topics: Advice Away Back Composers Go Go Away Operation Pieces Rehearsals Technical Two Young

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If we want to share the message of the composers, to give good things back to humanity, we have to dig deep while we can.

~Andris Nelsons

Topics: Back Composers Deep Dig Give Good Good Things Humanity Message Share Things Want While

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All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a father figure for generations.

~Andris Nelsons

Topics: After Beethoven Both Came Composers Even Father Father Figure Figure Generations He His Influenced Lifetime Music Personality Were Who

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Composers are always going back to the past.

~Anne Dudley

Topics: Always Back Composers Going Past

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Poets these days, like artists and composers, have won for themselves almost unlimited freedom. You can pass yourself off as a painter without being able to draw, as a composer without being conscious of key relationships, and as a poet without making yourself familiar with traditional verse forms.

~Anne Stevenson

Topics: Able Almost Artists Being Composer Composers Conscious Days Draw Familiar Forms Freedom Key Like Making Off Painter Pass Poet Poets Relationships Themselves Traditional Unlimited Verse Without Won You Yourself

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Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.

~Anton Rubinstein

Topics: Call Composer Composers Me Pianist Reactionary Think

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Composers are not all good conductors.

~Anton Seidl

Topics: Composers Conductors Good

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The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.

~Anton Seidl

Topics: Been Composers Conceived Conductors Could Direct Had Interpreting Longer Performance Person Placed Responsibility Spirit Which Works

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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.

~Antonio Damasio

Topics: Bach Because Beethoven Cannot Chopin Composers Doing Listen Require Stop Those Write You I Write

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I got my first break in 'Bhootnath,' solely on my credit, and went on to sing for around 20 films for all the leading music composers.

~Armaan Malik

Topics: Around Break Composers Credit Films First Got Leading Music Sing Solely

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