It is a great feeling to be called an international composer in the true sense. — Anu Malik Copy Share Image
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future. — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
I'm a composer. I know nothing about money and commercial stuff. I just write music. — Vangelis Copy Share Image
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise. — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally. — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm… — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have… — Carla Bley Copy Share Image
To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be,… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for… — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel.… — Sergei Rachmaninoff 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
This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer to that would be,… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of Bach than in that of any other composer, is an ability… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
An artist makes something to be physically experienced by another person. It's a raw, freely chosen, interpersonal relationship between the maker and… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in… — Christophe Beck Copy Share Image
When you think about a composer you know like Wagner or Pier Boulez or something like that most of the issues a… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I'm a geek and I'm a nerd, and I can listen into any piece of music. I think, I can usually tell… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
“The Prince stood beside the timpanist to count his rests for him and see that he came in in the right place.… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
I don't care how much people understand what it is that I'm doing, except if they're players in my ensemble or other… — Steve Reich Copy Share Image
Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
I think, when you're a young composer, you're told constantly that what you're supposed to do is figure out what your voice… — David Lang Copy Share Image
I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim,… — Charlie Byrd Copy Share Image
I think, you know, for someone who does play, let's say, old music or, you know, Baroque music or Renaissance music -… — Mahan Esfahani Copy Share Image
Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can… — Cornelius Lanczos Copy Share Image
As a composer, it is a great thrill for me to have an album in the top 15 of the pop charts. — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
Ramesh Vinayakam is a maestro music composer and a dear friend, too. — M. Jayachandran Copy Share Image
To be a composer, you have to be a die-hard music lover - which I am. — Devi Sri Prasad Copy Share Image
