Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also. — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and… — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one. — Sxip Shirey Copy Share Image
Any composer should be able to synthesize the primary feelings that the characters are going through in the movie. — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the… — Jacques Ibert Copy Share Image
I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day. — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked. — Judy Holliday Copy Share Image
“A composer who can lift the spirit of a million people with a song, is a definite force for good.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Wagner exploited all forms of expression at a composer's disposal - harmony, dynamics, orchestration - to the extreme. His music is highly… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know -… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
The musical culture in the United States has no doubt suffered severe setbacks, especially in funding, since the early 2000's. However, I've… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
Drummers get bored. You tell them to play something simple, and it gets more complicated as they do it. If they're not… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
“No one understands another’s grief, no one understands another’s joy. . . . My music is the product of my talent and… — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
One important thing, just being a film composer in general, is to have a great respect for the art that you're working… — Joseph Trapanese Copy Share Image
I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
If you're the sort of person that likes a job where once you know what you're doing you can keep doing what… — Henry Jackman Copy Share Image
Both costume and fashion are about telling a story, except that in a ballet the story has already been written by the… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language. — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did… — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
“King David is a wonderful example of a well-balanced man who was a warrior fighting battles on some days and a gentle,… — Vicki Courtney Copy Share Image
As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different… — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he… — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
For creators, especially for me as a composer, I am sure for singers also, it is sad. It is not exciting that… — Amit Trivedi Copy Share Image
Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a… — Anton Rubinstein Copy Share Image
I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to… — Sarah Brightman Copy Share Image
Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life. — Nobuo Uematsu Copy Share Image
Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity. — Gustav Holst Copy Share Image
I would love to study musical composition and become a composer. I have a deep admiration and respect for that sort of… — Jenna Ortega Copy Share Image
“- Mom, can I tell them there that I'm Romanian? - Sure, why not tell them? - I was thinking that they… — George Enescu Copy Share Image
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
![“An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a musician will interpret a composer's work, we interpret the work of a playwright. We are servants of the theatre and I've always believed that. We must serve what has been written…” quote by George Ogilvie](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7a7/george-ogilvie-34528_actors_an-actor-and-a-theatre-director-are-both_3214543.jpg)
