top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Composer quotes
"I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Composers are always going back to the past."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers."
Author Name
Personal Development
Explore more quotes by Warren Zevon
"Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time."
Time
"Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade."
Past
"Dylan can do no wrong."
Wrong
"The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano."
Being
"My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think."
Father
"That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business."
Business
"I'm not a big jazz fan."
Jazz
"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."
Music
"I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously."
Music
"So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on."
Years
bottom of page