You should never trust anyone who listens to Mahler before they're forty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out. — Ernest Newman Copy Share Image
He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz. — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
There's more musical freedom on Madison Avenue than anywhere else. It's an Eden for a composer. — Mitch Leigh 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
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not… — Hanns Eisler 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
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
Paul McCartney is a genius ... Paul married Rock & Roll to beauty, and forever raised the bar for composers, musicians, and… — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
My entire education in music was in reading interviews with bands like Stereolab and finding out about Brazilian music or a Romanian… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
It's funny because as a composer, you want to hear your songs live on. I think a lot of times people will… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
Although in society in general, the idea of an Irish composer of 'classical music', or whatever you want to call it, is… — John Kinsella Copy Share Image
Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
As your relationship with the music gets stronger, so does your motivation for playing it and finding different sounds. If you have… — Maurizio Pollini Copy Share Image
I grew up mostly in Champaign, Illinois. My dad was at the University of East Illinois, so I was always around the… — Stuart Hamm Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I… — John Adams Copy Share Image
With the new technology that keeps entering the media, film composers are constantly being placed in new learning situations. Acknowledging this and… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and… — Elliott Sharp Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a play I hear it like music. I use the same indications that a composer does for duration. There's… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Virgil Thomson, the great classical music critic, who was also a composer, but said that criticism was the only antidote he knew… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
It is only by demanding the impossible of the piano that you can obtain from it all that is possible. For the… — Heinrich Neuhaus Copy Share Image
I don't understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. A musician has to… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I will gladly give lessons as a favor, particularly when I see that my student has talent, inclination, and anxiety to learn;… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto. One of my closest friends is… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
