My favourite composers are Vishal Shekhar, AR Rahman, Shankar Ehsaan-Loy. — Bappi Lahiri Copy Share Image
I always loved the motion picture scores and the great film composers like Elmer Bernstein. — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life. — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense. — James Tenney Copy Share Image
It is excellent to work with new composers. They are experimental and have something out-of-the-box to offer which is mint fresh. — KK Copy Share Image
It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach. — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally. — Ken Hill Copy Share Image
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he's one of our greatest composers, and its good… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave… — Ben van Berkel 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
Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a… — Marco Tempest Copy Share Image
When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time,… — Luc Ferrari Copy Share Image
Film composers are the most prolific music makers on this planet, and most of us are, like, losing our minds if we're… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Having considered Handel's tumultuous opera career and his first term at Covent Garden in the 1730s, perhaps we may dare to suggest… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every… — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
“Handel's yearning for independence from the traditional chains of patronage and his persistence in monitoring his productions resulted with unique developments concerning… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career,… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared -… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds. — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas. — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people. — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Tom Kitt aside - he's in his own category with me, of course - Stephen Sondheim is one of my all-time favorite… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
“All Bach's last movements are like the running of a sewing machine. (on Bach)” — Arnold Bax Copy Share Image
The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America. — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups. — David Del Tredici Copy Share Image
A thousand composers couldn't create a soundtrack as lovely as your voice. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I admire Turgenev, Camus, Proust and Shakespeare, but I've also learnt a lot about writing from composers and artists. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
I'm the benefactor of people who are doing so much hard work championing women composers. — Du Yun Copy Share Image
My advice to composers is, 'Try to reach 90, and everyone will love you.' — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
I've always said there aren't great composers- there are great songs. — Vicente Fernandez Copy Share Image
Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers. — John Eaton Copy Share Image
