I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer. — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
There was nothing extraordinary about the work I was doing as a composer though I had delivered hits. — Vijay Antony Copy Share Image
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better… — Jerome Kern Copy Share Image
Jerry Goldsmith is an artist who meets all the demands upon the composer in films. He communicates, integrates, subordinates, supports, and designs… — Jerry Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I think actors really like to know what does a casting agent really think or what does a composer really think. — Julie Halston Copy Share Image
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Historically, there is a fight between the sound designer and the composer. You see them in the mixing room and they're always… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
Music critics have made it quite clear that any composer who ever contributed a four-bar jingle to a film was to be… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
One of my heroes is a composer named James Bernard, and oh my God... I can still listen to his music today… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
Every piece of music is a form of personal expression for its creator...If a work doesnt express the composers own personal point… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
I have always personally preferred to think of what is more difficult for my instrument, and not what is the most natural… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
When you hear composer, you think, like, Beethoven: guy in a powdered wig, at a piano, furiously scribbling on manuscript paper. That's… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Becoming a father allowed me to become a much better composer, because it allowed me to have tremendous patience. I have much… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
“Who needs to be a Phoenix for rebirth? One simply requires themselves and an instrument to clean the slate and start over,… — TheBakaViolinist Copy Share Image
The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The first season of 'Human Target' was to me the pinnacle of my career as a composer. It pushed me to become… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I always go back to the original material. I want a good connection as the composer and writer of the score to… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz. — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
I'm like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, I'm still going to be asking for… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change... is that I really need to go… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I won the national award for the best music composer and also had the fortune of scoring music for songs penned by… — Vidyasagar Copy Share Image
I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for… — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not… — Hanns Eisler Copy Share Image
“Many contemporary composers have been building walls of sounds following their own clever devices. But then, who lives inside those rooms?” — Toru Takemitsu Copy Share Image
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have… — Carla Bley Copy Share Image
To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be,… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm… — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances? — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
