No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most. — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily. — Gianni Versace Copy Share Image
It's a very fun project as a composer to work on a movie that has music in its core. — Santhosh Narayanan Copy Share Image
I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical… — John Cale Copy Share Image
First of all, with due respect to my dad, he wasn't an ace composer. He never got the success that my uncle… — Amaal Mallik Copy Share Image
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people. — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which… — George Crumb Copy Share Image
There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
One of the advantages I've had as an interpreter - because I'm not a composer - is I've had the fortune of… — Jose Jose Copy Share Image
I thought I wanted to be a performing and recording artist, and played many recitals and performances beginning in the 1970s. In… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got… — Richard Rodney Bennett Copy Share Image
Fred Sturm has proven to be a great asset to the musical world as a teacher, composer and author. His gifts have… — Bob Brookmeyer Copy Share Image
Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach.… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
A young pianist & composer who has demonstrated an exceptional creativity, in both his playing & his writing, as well as showing… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Presenting Aschenbach as a composer - based on Mahler - leads to some dreadful scenes (especially those in which Aschenbach is berated… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Three of tonights performers are members of the group Return To One, whose album Hopes and Dreams I heard for the first… — Mike Keneally Copy Share Image
For instance, members of the elite will never allow their children to become musicians normally, because it's - not embarrassing - but… — Ayshay Copy Share Image
When people listen to my music, I hope that they will notice that if you take a piece by a composer like… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music,… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a… — Bernard Herrmann Copy Share Image
The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character. — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
I think no composer knows he's creating a hit until the audience gives it a nod. — Amaal Mallik Copy Share Image
“Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. — Howard Dietz Copy Share Image
Generally, as a composer, it's perceived as an employer-employee relationship. — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
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