As a composer you want to tell musicians two completely contradictory things. You want to say, "Play exactly what I wrote, but… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything… — Robert Moog Copy Share Image
Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
I discovered that I didn't want to be strict like a German composer. — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by… — Joseph Haydn Copy Share Image
One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change... is that I really need to go… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion. — Leonard Bernstein 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
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
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines. — Phil Collins 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
An artist makes something to be physically experienced by another person. It's a raw, freely chosen, interpersonal relationship between the maker and… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
I am the pianist of the duo, although Aleksey does pretty good... you know we've written more and more stuff where he… — Richard Hyung-ki Joo 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
The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often… — Tom Glazer 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
