Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t. — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
I came across a lot of young composers who have got passion but lack experience. I want to help them out. — Sukhwinder Singh Copy Share Image
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is! — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself. — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
“History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
But it can be tough for new composers as directors tend to block you out. — M. Jayachandran Copy Share Image
The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life. — Nobuo Uematsu Copy Share Image
I know I have experience, having worked with the likes of legendary composers like Ilaiyaraaja. And, I've been long enough with my… — Sivamani Copy Share Image
I sort of enjoy being able to hear what other composers are doing and how they might score something differently than me.… — Marco Beltrami Copy Share Image
Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music,… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
I'm interested in what happens to music when other people use it. Whereas there are composers who don't like anyone to touch… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
The first part of my career was indeed as a performer and recording artist, and I am still keenly involved with both.… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were… — Robert Coppola Schwartzman Copy Share Image
It's no longer unusual for real avant-garde composers to have been in a band, and for bands to be interested in a… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach. I love Paganini, too, the… — Matt Schulze Copy Share Image
I've seen composers work on 30 films at one go. So, eight or even 10 albums in a year is no big deal. — Pritam Chakraborty Copy Share Image
Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked. — Judy Holliday Copy Share Image
Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60. — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. — Howard Dietz Copy Share Image
I think TV composers don't get enough credit. I really think it is one of the hardest jobs. — Lorne Balfe Copy Share Image
I have always loved composers who have been connected with folk traditions of popular music. — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that. — John Eaton Copy Share Image
Some composers end up writing for the guitar as they would write piano music or, more often, harp music. It isn't the… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors. — Shaan Copy Share Image
Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
I look at composers and conductors, anybody involved in music or writing or art in general; they got more done as they… — Sarah Brightman Copy Share Image
Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I think we have a lot in common with classical composers of the 19th century, although I'm not claiming to have their… — Matt Bellamy Copy Share Image
People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire;… — Robert A Schumann (German Romantic Composer Copy Share Image
I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity… — George Crumb Copy Share Image
One of the advantages I've had as an interpreter - because I'm not a composer - is I've had the fortune of… — Jose Jose Copy Share Image
There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop… — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach.… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
In a fit at the bookstore one day, I bought all my favourite composers' biographies: Schubert, Massenet, Wolf. I've still not had… — Danielle de Niese Copy Share Image
But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
