“History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
I'm really drawn to West Coast composers and I think it has a little something to do with looking across the Pacific… — Mark Morris Copy Share Image
I have declared that I will work free of cost with those composers who are passionate about their work. Sohail Sen is… — Sukhwinder Singh Copy Share Image
I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we have very few female composers in our country, but Sneha Khanwalkar, Alokananda Dasgupta, and Jasleen Royal are forces to reckon… — Amaal Mallik Copy Share Image
Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the… — David Del Tredici Copy Share Image
When I was between the ages of 5 and 8 years old, I fell in love with the music of composers like… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the… — Robert Morris Copy Share Image
There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only… — Bill Conti Copy Share Image
We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We… — Margaret Whiting Copy Share Image
Composers now just don't have the depth of inspiration for melody. Most of the lyrics of the pop songs you hear today… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
Men have been in the forefront of music for centuries, and they have written glorious music, loved and appreciated by many. In… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
It's so interesting, you know, whenever you read the accounts of composers playing their own music, that they had very different priorities… — Helene Grimaud Copy Share Image
George Rochberg once said that 'to be a composer, you need to have fire in the belly, fire in the brain, but… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries.… — Mike Love Copy Share Image
Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to… — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic… — J. J. Johnson Copy Share Image
Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
Who can forget the music of the French composer Germaine Tailleferre? These are just a few composers whose aesthetic ideals we all… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I think the reason composers aren't valued is because many act as servants rather than music directors. Instead of taking a stand… — M. Jayachandran Copy Share Image
The generation of composers that are just preceded me, people like [Karlheinz] Stockhausen, [Pierre] Boulez, and, well, [John] Cage for that matter,[Morton]… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen… — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
![“The generation of composers that are just preceded me, people like [Karlheinz] Stockhausen, [Pierre] Boulez, and, well, [John] Cage for that matter,[Morton] Feldman ... That was a kind of experimental music that was very isolated. It had no real public.” quote by Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f0e/philip-glass-14533_cages_the-generation-of-composers-that-are-jus_789302.jpg)
