“- Mom, can I tell them there that I'm Romanian? - Sure, why not tell them? - I was thinking that they… — George Enescu Copy Share Image
I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked. — Judy Holliday Copy Share Image
“A composer who can lift the spirit of a million people with a song, is a definite force for good.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day. — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
Any composer should be able to synthesize the primary feelings that the characters are going through in the movie. — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people get intimidated by the language of music, but everyone owns music. I think there's nothing standing… — Jeanine Tesori Copy Share Image
The first part of my career was indeed as a performer and recording artist, and I am still keenly involved with both.… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
“Sometime in high school it dawned on me that perhaps I was a little different...I realized music wasn't swirling in the minds… — Robin Spielberg Copy Share Image
I'm a living composer, so I think I just write and compose the music of my time. I'm not saying that I… — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music,… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
I think of all music as existing in the substance of the air itself. It is the composer's task to order and… — Libby Larsen Copy Share Image
Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and… — Fred Frith 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
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language. — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
Both costume and fashion are about telling a story, except that in a ballet the story has already been written by the… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned. — Toru Takemitsu Copy Share Image
In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer. — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
I am proud to be able to claim that, from the age of nineteen, I've managed to earna living entirely as a… — Richard Rodney Bennett Copy Share Image
Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then… — Fernand Point Copy Share Image
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority. — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
Pandit Pran Nath has given much of his later life to America and Europe and has influenced many of our younger composers. — Bernard Holland Copy Share Image
In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us,… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on -… — Morton Gould Copy Share Image
Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a… — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
I don't believe in a composer who is only able to compose, who can't play or conduct, can only use a computer.… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that… — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
Matisse was my God. I'm a French artist, that's for sure. I am color-oriented and what you might call a composer. I… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive. — Yann Tiersen Copy Share Image
Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to… — Aaron Zigman 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
Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of… — Louise Talma Copy Share Image
