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
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
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
I've always had my ear peeled for interesting music. As a student, I regularly spent time hunting for interesting repertoire, looking through… — Anne Akiko Meyers Copy Share Image
Music is my natural language. I have always had a form of dyslexia. I never studied music formally, so emotions come directly… — Lucy Simon Copy Share Image
The music of Gavin Bryars falls under no category. It is mongrel, full of sensuality and wit and is deeply moving. He… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me… — Ayumi Hamasaki Copy Share Image
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach… — Ernest Newman Copy Share Image
That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics,… — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
Once in a while, a teacher gets rewarded with a brilliant student. My two years with Dan Szabo at the New England… — Bob Brookmeyer 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
When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
As a composer I could never find use for over 4 or 5 notes in any musical number, and as a playwright… — George M. Cohan Copy Share Image
What's great about [Guettel] is his very distinct voice as a composer. And that distinct voice is something worth cherishing and expressing… — Bartlett Sher Copy Share Image
Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I was offered a few shows, but the money didn't work out, but I'm not very keen on judging such shows. I'm… — Pritam Chakraborty Copy Share Image
I have declared that I will work free of cost with those composers who are passionate about their work. Sohail Sen is… — Sukhwinder Singh Copy Share Image
The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is! — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Communists love to make films about composers because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things. — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
I came across a lot of young composers who have got passion but lack experience. I want to help them out. — Sukhwinder Singh Copy Share Image
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience. — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public cold spring water. — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
Battlestar Galactica' was my first job as a composer. To say that it changed my life is the understatement of the century. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I simply love Wagner's music. That actually started very early. He was the first composer I was exposed very much to because… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience… — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
When you work with a good composer, you don't tell him what to write. If he knows your playing, he will do… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
In the 1990s music was a beautiful collaborative process between the composer, lyricist and director. They would exchange ideas and magic used… — Amit Trivedi Copy Share Image
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