When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they… — Clement Greenberg 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'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
I came across a lot of young composers who have got passion but lack experience. I want to help them out. — Sukhwinder Singh Copy Share Image
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience. — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public cold spring water. — Jean Sibelius 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
Louie Bellson represents the epitome of musical talent. His ability to cover the whole musical spectrum from an elite percussionist to a… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life.… — Yanni Copy Share Image
I'm interested in what happens to music when other people use it. Whereas there are composers who don't like anyone to touch… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer,… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
...in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer,… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
The best results come when people believe in and feel strongly about the music they are playing. Just as composers write for… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to… — Albert Schweitzer 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
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
The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance. — Ansel Adams 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
Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a… — Anton Rubinstein Copy Share Image
For creators, especially for me as a composer, I am sure for singers also, it is sad. It is not exciting that… — Amit Trivedi Copy Share Image
I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to… — Sarah Brightman Copy Share Image
If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer. — Ned Rorem 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
Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity. — Gustav Holst Copy Share Image
The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did… — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different… — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
“King David is a wonderful example of a well-balanced man who was a warrior fighting battles on some days and a gentle,… — Vicki Courtney Copy Share Image
Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in… — Cliff Martinez Copy Share Image
I had a really nice association with Richie DeRosa, a great musician, a great drummer and composer and arranger. And I had… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer. — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
