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
As a composer I could never find use for over 4 or 5 notes in any musical number, and as a playwright… — George M. Cohan Copy Share Image
I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
A film just doesn't involve actors, a director and a producer, there is also the cameraman, the sound engineer, the music composer,… — Aamir Khan Copy Share Image
The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Gorecki, you know, there's a kind of personal thing there for me. I had, you know, kind of become obsessed with that… — Mahan Esfahani Copy Share Image
Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while… — Virgil Thomson 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
I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own… — Madeleine L'Engle 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
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is! — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one. — Sxip Shirey Copy Share Image
It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best. — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
I don't work with an outline, except a vague one in my head, a general idea of character, place, arc... I'm like… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
In some ways, it is difficult for contemporary composers to find an audience. Both men and women would love a culture that… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
