I have always loved composers who have been connected with…

All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters of their…

— Corinne Heline

“The oral and folk traditions were often ignored, or even denounced as superstitious, because they did not fit the Western norms.10”

— Rajiv Malhotra

“Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as…

— Jonny Greenwood

I feel a vocabulary in my music that is coming from popular music. Popular music is like the mother of all languages.

— Ludovico Einaudi

This is the beauty of popular music, that it is based on simple and memorable tunes.

— Ludovico Einaudi

I express myself using my classical skills to write more complex forms of popular music.

— Ludovico Einaudi

Often, I could not find the range of emotions in classical music which I found in the The Rolling Stones and Hendrix. Listening to…

— Ludovico Einaudi

Men have been in the forefront of music for centuries, and they have written glorious music, loved and appreciated by many. In some ways,…

— Barbara Harbach

As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach. I love Paganini, too, the Italian composer…

— Matt Schulze

As improvisers, we're acting as composers in front of people.

— Kurt Elling

I always loved the motion picture scores and the great film composers like Elmer Bernstein.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.

— George Gershwin

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

— Judy Holliday

There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There…

— J. J. Johnson