Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly! — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver. — Morton Gould Copy Share Image
I think he [composer Joe Raposo] was the first man who kissed me on the cheek. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now. — Neville Marriner Copy Share Image
I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians… — Bradley Joseph Copy Share Image
I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity… — George Crumb Copy Share Image
The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be. — Yanni Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a composer, and I sort of went in to NYU as pre-med because I just thought, 'Well...… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime… — Benjamin Britten Copy Share Image
Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
Writing is a little athletic for me. I get worked up a little bit when I do it. So I guess I'm… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
In my study I can lay my hand on the Bible in the pitch dark. All truly inspired ideas come from God.… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and… — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer… — Harry S. Broudy Copy Share Image
When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I used to wish I could write songs like the others - and I've tried but I just can't. I get the… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
Composer” is a word which here means “a person who sits in a room, muttering and humming and figuring out what notes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sort of enjoy being able to hear what other composers are doing and how they might score something differently than me.… — Marco Beltrami Copy Share Image
What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything… — Robert Moog Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that. — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
“You're composing not in relation to the spectacle, but in relation to the drama on the screen.” — HowardStone Copy Share Image
Mithoon is a composer who really likes to work a lot on his songs. He is like a small kid in the… — Jubin Nautiyal Copy Share Image
John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks. — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas. — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
Human warmth is perhaps the most lacking in a composer who lives his life in a recording studio. — Fabio Frizzi Copy Share Image
The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into… — Barry Finnerty Copy Share Image
Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels… — George Crumb Copy Share Image
If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream… — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer. — Fede Alvarez Copy Share Image
It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach. — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
I don't think there's such a difference between older and newer music as there is between one composer and another. — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
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