I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
That's what I love - on 'The Farewell,' we played with a lot of silence and a lot of negative space, and… — Lulu Wang Copy Share Image
If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all… — Frederick Corder Copy Share Image
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I'm the only composer who has scored for two-three generation of actors. Be it for Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan or Dharmendra, Sunny… — Bappi Lahiri Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge of it is figuring out… — Caroline Shaw Copy Share Image
Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he… — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
When I was done with high school, I knew that music was really important to me and I knew I didn't want… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could… — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
Men have been in the forefront of music for centuries, and they have written glorious music, loved and appreciated by many. In… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
It's got to feel, the pulse has to feel like this part of the world, the instrumentation has to be true to… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians… — Bradley Joseph Copy Share Image
it's important as a composer to sit in silence and imagine these complex musical worlds in your head, but it's also a… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
After I found out that I was playing music and that I'd have to learn how to read and write music, I… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies… — Itay Talgam Copy Share Image
Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art;… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
It's so interesting, you know, whenever you read the accounts of composers playing their own music, that they had very different priorities… — Helene Grimaud Copy Share Image
A Composer who hears sounds will try to find a notation for sounds. One who has ideas will find one that expresses… — Cornelius Cardew Copy Share Image
George Rochberg once said that 'to be a composer, you need to have fire in the belly, fire in the brain, but… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
As an example, there is a Japanese composer / singer whose name is Tanimura [Shinji]: he has composed a song entitled entitled… — Richard Clayderman Copy Share Image
I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
I grew up on Bach and Beethoven and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
As a composer you want to tell musicians two completely contradictory things. You want to say, "Play exactly what I wrote, but… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
Statistically in the UK, there are so many fewer female composers than male songwriters and they're marketed in a way that -… — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have… — Olivier Messiaen Copy Share Image
Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony… — William Beebe Copy Share Image
As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach. I love Paganini, too, the… — Matt Schulze Copy Share Image
I was starting a group of musicians and we had a group of young composers in Finland back in the '70s, and… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic… — J. J. Johnson Copy Share Image
As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
Criticism will survive even if no one's paying for it. Obviously it's better if people are paying for it. But the fact… — Ignatiy Vishnevetsky Copy Share Image
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