As a pianist, our particular role is to enter a piece and its logic and create a particular interpretation from our understanding.… — Rafal Blechacz Copy Share Image
Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
We are God’s gift to each other. Like a master composer, He brings all the instruments together, each with a different tone,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd love to do a musical actually. My background is in music. I have a bachelors in music. I thought that I… — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer,… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
There’s no card, business card, better than a compact disc for a composer. It doesn’t half impress people and they get a… — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
I was going to say is that I come from a rock background, but also I was super interested in jazz for… — Jherek Bischoff Copy Share Image
Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only… — Alban Berg Copy Share Image
Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must… — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
Who can forget the music of the French composer Germaine Tailleferre? These are just a few composers whose aesthetic ideals we all… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do… — Johannes Rau Copy Share Image
That is the operatic problem; the singer must keep up a big head of steam while trying to appear secretive, or seductive,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary… — Milton Babbitt Copy Share Image
I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a… — Benjamin Britten Copy Share Image
There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
I don't think they understand it's as important as math and science. It rounds you out as a person. I think it… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
[Phil wood] put on some [Igor] Stravinsky and say to follow the score, tell me to play me the opening to the… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
The scientist is also a composer... You could think of science as discovering one particular thing - a supernova or whatever. You… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Gorecki, you know, there's a kind of personal thing there for me. I had, you know, kind of become obsessed with that… — Mahan Esfahani Copy Share Image
“How strange and god-like was a composer's power, who from the grave could lead through sequences of emotion, which he alone had… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The generation of composers that are just preceded me, people like [Karlheinz] Stockhausen, [Pierre] Boulez, and, well, [John] Cage for that matter,[Morton]… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
When I got out of college I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if… — J.K. Simmons Copy Share Image
Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
I hope people just enjoy the music. I'm not worried about any sort of legacy. Whether people view me more as the… — Glenn Kotche Copy Share Image
I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained… — Phil Woods Copy Share Image
My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen… — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks,… — Thomas Powers Copy Share Image
The composer must bear in mind that the radio listener does not hear music directly. He hears it only after the sound… — Raymond Scott Copy Share Image
“Like all great works, it manages to be great without trying to be brilliant. It just is, and effortlessly so. . .… — Milo Behr Copy Share Image
![“[Phil wood] put on some [Igor] Stravinsky and say to follow the score, tell me to play me the opening to the Rite of Spring. Or, "I'm going to play you some 20th century obscure classical composer you don't know". Or, "Let's listen to some Charles Ives, let's sight read some Bartok violin duets"…” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ee1/jon-gordon-1655_20th-century_phil-wood-put-on-some-igor-stravinsky-an_1463042.jpg)
![“The generation of composers that are just preceded me, people like [Karlheinz] Stockhausen, [Pierre] Boulez, and, well, [John] Cage for that matter,[Morton] Feldman ... That was a kind of experimental music that was very isolated. It had no real public.” quote by Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f0e/philip-glass-14533_cages_the-generation-of-composers-that-are-jus_789302.jpg)
![“Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience; that all his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning - the music itself, which, after…” quote by Leonard Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0f0/leonard-bernstein-10475_audience_perhaps-the-chief-requirement-of-the-con_2046281.jpg)
![“Like all great works, it manages to be great without trying to be brilliant. It just is, and effortlessly so. . . . [Has a] rhythm that's sophisticated in its subdivisions of time and its impeccable sense of proportion and pace. —James Guymon Film Composer VP, Composers Guild of America” quote by Milo Behr](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/98b/milo-behr-93832_composer_like-all-great-works-it-manages-to-be-gr_2280399.jpg)
