It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
I usually work with the director and it's just a collaboration between me and the one person. I think you make good… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future. — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
There are great jazz educators that I meet all the time. I met a guy named Paul Luchessi who has a high… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
“Having renounced his native land, Sanger adopted no other. He roved about from one European capital to another, never settling anywhere for… — Margaret Kennedy Copy Share Image
If you're a composer, there's never a moment you're not working. — Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Copy Share Image
One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child,… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer. — Mitch Leigh Copy Share Image
I always go back to the original material. I want a good connection as the composer and writer of the score to… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America. — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. — Ernest Newman Copy Share Image
As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only… — Alban Berg Copy Share Image
'Foolishq' from 'Ki & Ka' gave me a chance to work with renowned composer Ilaiyaraaja and Shreya Ghoshal. — Armaan Malik Copy Share Image
This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer to that would be,… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
