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Posers Quotes

God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us to search our souls for the meaning of the mysteries described in ancient books Picture Quote #1

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do Picture Quote #1

How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn’t, the wolves and blizzards would be at one’s throat all the sooner Picture Quote #1

The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales Picture Quote #1

What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I’ve done Picture Quote #1

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it! Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that Picture Quote #1

There’s still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that’s still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces Picture Quote #1

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally Picture Quote #1

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The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don’t want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve Picture Quote #1

My favorite composers tend to be great improvisers as well as great players. It doesn’t matter whether they’re contemporary or classical Picture Quote #1

In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on paper Picture Quote #1

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people Picture Quote #1

There is but one thing necessary to keep the possession of true glory, which is to hear the opposers of it with patience, and preserve the virtue by which it was acquired Picture Quote #1

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand Picture Quote #1

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Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection Picture Quote #1

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best Picture Quote #1

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song Picture Quote #1

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully Picture Quote #1

I don’t use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts Picture Quote #1

The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge Picture Quote #1

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Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche Picture Quote #1

I am certain that most composers today would consider today’s music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics Picture Quote #1

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today Picture Quote #1

It’s amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience Picture Quote #1

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don’t know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation Picture Quote #1

A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we’ve commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos Picture Quote #1

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God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us to search our souls for the meaning of the mysteries described in ancient books (Posers Quotes) There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do (Posers Quotes) How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn’t, the wolves and blizzards would be at one’s throat all the sooner (Posers Quotes) The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales (Posers Quotes) What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I’ve done (Posers Quotes) So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old (Posers Quotes) 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 (Posers Quotes) The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it! (Posers Quotes) 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 (Posers Quotes) I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that (Posers Quotes) There’s still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that’s still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces (Posers Quotes) Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally (Posers Quotes) The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don’t want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve (Posers Quotes) My favorite composers tend to be great improvisers as well as great players. It doesn’t matter whether they’re contemporary or classical (Posers Quotes) In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on paper (Posers Quotes) America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people (Posers Quotes) There is but one thing necessary to keep the possession of true glory, which is to hear the opposers of it with patience, and preserve the virtue by which it was acquired (Posers Quotes) Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand (Posers Quotes) Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection (Posers Quotes) Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best (Posers Quotes) When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song (Posers Quotes) Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully (Posers Quotes) I don’t use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts (Posers Quotes) The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge (Posers Quotes) Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche (Posers Quotes) I am certain that most composers today would consider today’s music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics (Posers Quotes) Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today (Posers Quotes) It’s amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience (Posers Quotes) A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don’t know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation (Posers Quotes) A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we’ve commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos (Posers Quotes)

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