The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins. — Hans von Bulow Copy Share Image
I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.' — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
I don't think that because l'm a composer I only have to compose music. — Joe Hisaishi Copy Share Image
I always go back to the original material. I want a good connection as the composer and writer of the score to… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz. — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better… — Jerome Kern Copy Share Image
Jerry Goldsmith is an artist who meets all the demands upon the composer in films. He communicates, integrates, subordinates, supports, and designs… — Jerry Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I think actors really like to know what does a casting agent really think or what does a composer really think. — Julie Halston Copy Share Image
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“Who needs to be a Phoenix for rebirth? One simply requires themselves and an instrument to clean the slate and start over,… — TheBakaViolinist Copy Share Image
The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Since music is a reflection of our mindset and our culture, it is bound to change with time. I am glad that… — Sonu Nigam Copy Share Image
Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit… — Raymond Scott Copy Share Image
You see the genius that Whitney Houston has as an interpreter of material, and you realize why genius can be applied to… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I'm not a great guitarist, but I do bits and bobs. I'm mainly a songwriter and a composer. I've done a lot… — Matthew James Thomas Copy Share Image
Notes are part of life for any composer for hire. There's no way around it. I think anyone who has done even… — Christophe Beck Copy Share Image
I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people.… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky . The glory of science is not in a truth more… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works - he has an idea and he writes… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I went to Hollywood. I put the action in Hollywood. I watched a lot of movies, maybe 100 or something close to… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
Thankfully, it is getting better for women composers. We now have five women Pulitzer Prize winners in music since 1983: Ellen Taaffe… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
I discovered that I didn't want to be strict like a German composer. — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
