If I do a play, it's my vision, and everybody else is working on the production to support that. If I do… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
For me personally - because I do it myself - the scoring of a picture is fun. I edit the picture and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy… — Cecilia Bartoli Copy Share Image
To meditate for world peace, to pray for a better world, and to work for social justice and environmental protection while continuing… — Will Tuttle Copy Share Image
It's a myth that you need to understand all the ins and outs of music. The ideal scenario is you have a… — Henry Jackman Copy Share Image
It's nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling… — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I believe in jazz is that the oneness of man can come through the rhythm of your heart.… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
Bob Moses, composer, drummer, poet, artist, conceptualizer, inspirer of people, has created a musical environment that is balanced between discipline and freedom,… — Gil Evans Copy Share Image
In film, I was surprised when I first saw the movie 'Drive.' I said, 'Oh, God. It sounds great - I love… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to… — John Eaton Copy Share Image
I've been a full-time composer for many years, and I'm still learning all the time. There is always more than one musical… — John Keltonic 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 the pianist of the duo, although Aleksey does pretty good... you know we've written more and more stuff where he… — Richard Hyung-ki Joo 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
Music and songs have always been a constant part of my life, and still are. My brother Michael, who is a songwriter… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
For me, listening to Beethoven and Tchaikovsky in particular, there's an emotional aspect - very different kinds of emotional aspects from those… — Crispin Glover Copy Share Image
I feel a composer should not crave to sing songs because songs itself decides its voice. The films where I have given… — Sonu Nigam Copy Share Image
When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My greatest experiences in the theatre and the most religious experiences in my life - of which going to the opera is… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I could create music that sounded as strange as any electronic music, because you see, my opinion about electronic music is that… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared -… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
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