I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about. — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
There's more musical freedom on Madison Avenue than anywhere else. It's an Eden for a composer. — Mitch Leigh Copy Share Image
I'm blessed to be working with wizards like Vishal Bhardwaj as well as many young composers. — Sukhwinder Singh Copy Share Image
I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena. — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
When you are known as this cutting-edge composer all the time... it's no longer cutting-edge. — Du Yun 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
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
I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Working with composers often is a really frustrating experience because you speak a different language and, oftentimes, they take two or three… — Peter Berg Copy Share Image
Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
To talk about communication theory without communicating its real mathematical content would be like endlessly telling a man about a wonderful composer,… — John R. Pierce Copy Share Image
Purcell is a composer who had a formative influence on British music - even The Who now cite him as an influence.… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
It's funny because as a composer, you want to hear your songs live on. I think a lot of times people will… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Be persistent. Establishing yourself in this field could easily take years. Rarely will any composer get that one "big break." More often,… — John Keltonic Copy Share Image
'Jazz Artist of the Century' would have to be a distinctive soloist and ensemble player, a composer, an arranger, a bandleader, and… — Dave Douglas Copy Share Image
My pieces usually are programmed on concerts in which the other works are standard repertoire. My music always sounds very different when… — Jennifer Higdon Copy Share Image
In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
the writer must resist this temptation [to quote] and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
I've certainly stayed a marginal figure, though I became a member of the "surveillance committee" fairly early on. I can actually live… — Mauricio Kagel Copy Share Image
“In major movies these days, the fine details of music, instrumentation and sound design are lost. This is a shame, and it… — Julius Dobos Copy Share Image
“It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Is there a gender gap in the music industry? It is true that there are more professional male music creators than female.… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
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