I'm blessed to be working with wizards like Vishal Bhardwaj as well as many young composers. — Sukhwinder Singh Copy Share Image
I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about. — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
There's more musical freedom on Madison Avenue than anywhere else. It's an Eden for a composer. — Mitch Leigh Copy Share Image
I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena. — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
When you are known as this cutting-edge composer all the time... it's no longer cutting-edge. — Du Yun 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
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
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer. — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
With a musical, you kind of have to do a mind-meld with the book-writer, the lyricist, the composer, the director - sometimes… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be… — Anthony Davis Copy Share Image
I really want to become, like, a composer for my people, my country that will photograph the things that are happening now… — Natalia Lafourcade 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
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
I was playing in a band and was approached to score an independent film. I had never done it, but had written… — Douglas Pipes Copy Share Image
Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The most important thing to remember is that the composer is a senior partner. You cannot force a subject on a composer… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
A few Disney TV composers had me pinch-hit writing some scoring cues to picture. Disney tapped me to be the composer for… — Danny Jacob 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
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
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
I listen to my songs as if it's a song made by some other composer. — Devi Sri Prasad Copy Share Image
A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius! — Pablo de Sarasate Copy Share Image
I'm a very style-driven composer, and I like to give every project its own unique stamp. — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
