There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
I'm still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe. — Dhani Harrison Copy Share Image
A lot of composers I know hate temp scores because people get attached to them. — Steven Price Copy Share Image
As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
I'm like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, I'm still going to be asking for… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change... is that I really need to go… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I won the national award for the best music composer and also had the fortune of scoring music for songs penned by… — Vidyasagar Copy Share Image
I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
The first season of 'Human Target' was to me the pinnacle of my career as a composer. It pushed me to become… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
Just recently, I thought about how maybe I should have kept using the synthesisers more after 'Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence'; then, I… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
Paul McCartney is a genius ... Paul married Rock & Roll to beauty, and forever raised the bar for composers, musicians, and… — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
Although in society in general, the idea of an Irish composer of 'classical music', or whatever you want to call it, is… — John Kinsella Copy Share Image
There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
As your relationship with the music gets stronger, so does your motivation for playing it and finding different sounds. If you have… — Maurizio Pollini Copy Share Image
Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads,… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I usually need a lot of time to be completely alone with the particular piece, the composer, and the instrument. I also… — Rafal Blechacz Copy Share Image
In fact, if you take any group of scores, it's likely that fifty to sixty percent are going to be so much… — Jennifer Higdon Copy Share Image
The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto. One of my closest friends is… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
It's hard to put into words the impact of the perfect lyric, melody or contagious beat that moves you in an unexpected… — Leopold Stokowski Copy Share Image
I was a musician who began playing with computers, to see if they could make some tasks simpler. I developed some "tricks"… — Kurt Ralske Copy Share Image
I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. The more noise they made the more softly… — Peggy Lee Copy Share Image
To spend any time with someone who is among the top five film composers of the last 50 years is pure gold… — Henry Jackman Copy Share Image
I will gladly give lessons as a favor, particularly when I see that my student has talent, inclination, and anxiety to learn;… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
