On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Louie Bellson represents the epitome of musical talent. His ability to cover the whole musical spectrum from an elite percussionist to a… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
I don't claim to be a composer, and I realize my approach is pretty dopey in comparison to the true masters of… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
For my qualifying concert, Helmut Walcha would not coach Charles-Marie Widor or any American compositions. In his defense, his forte was Germanic… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
My first husband, John Barry, was a composer. I couldn't believe that this sophisticated, talented genius chose me and not any of… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by music and sounds. I was lucky to receive proper classical training as an orchestra player and I'm… — Lior Ron Copy Share Image
Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful canon, one of those pieces in which, surely, the composer simply transcribed… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I fool around with guitar and I can fool around on piano. I don't really play either instrument although I can play… — Frankie Laine Copy Share Image
I have written six symphonies, they are smaller-scale works. I seem to emit my themes, work them out, combine and intertwine them,… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
In India, I have been called a 'destroyer.' But that is only because they mixed my identity as a performer and as… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Jerry Goldsmith, I have to say, is my single favorite composer of all time. He was one of the most innovative guys… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to… — Thomas Dolby Copy Share Image
I recall improvisational drummer and composer Michael Evans telling me a story of someone who had the opportunity to meet Cage and… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though… — John Blacking Copy Share Image
If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not… — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
The main thing the composer needs to do is it needs to remember that the director is there to cheer you on.… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
It still amazes me how many musicians aren't really interested in engaging with their audience at all. Alfred Brendel, a pianist for… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
I'm an English songwriter/composer, working in Mandarin and trying to find something about Chinese culture that I really relate to and respect… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
In some ways, it is difficult for contemporary composers to find an audience. Both men and women would love a culture that… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
I was always a composer since I was a kid, but the BMI Workshop is where the networking really all stems from.… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
I don't work with an outline, except a vague one in my head, a general idea of character, place, arc... I'm like… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
The thing I realised about composition is, we remember most composers for four bars of music. Four singable bars of music. Pretty… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
I think that being a film composer, someone that gets it and actually applies the music, it allows you to open up… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director,… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent,… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
There are, however, composers whose music can only be heard in a chromatic sense. George Perle, for example, wrote pieces that you… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music. Then, the music… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
“Even if, in one or other of them, I had a particular word or words in mind, I would not tell anyone,… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
[Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's… — Cecilia Bartoli Copy Share Image
The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this… — John Powell Copy Share Image
When I finally got together with Rostropovich as a student, he was very focused, almost entirely focused on the music itself, on… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
“(From Boulez, an authorized biography by Joan Peyser) At the chapel door he [a priest associated with a school Boulez attended] asked… — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
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