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
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
I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the… — Neville Cardus Copy Share Image
Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me… — Ayumi Hamasaki 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
Every bit of theorizing I've ever done, including my interest in Berg, has come as a consequence of discoveries I made as… — George Perle 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 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
...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
Mozart for me is the No. 1 composer. His music is not just joy or sadness. It's deep emotion with a touch… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see… — Esa-Pekka Salonen 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
Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer. — Marilyn Horne Copy Share Image
Each composer has their own language, and I try to meet the challenges, even if at first sight, they appear impossible. — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go. — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
With every film, for which I'm the only composer, I try to switch genres. I find that really exciting. — Amaal Mallik Copy Share Image
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also. — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
What is so beautiful about a composer and a lyricist is that their job is to push a story along and not… — Keala Settle Copy Share Image
The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests… — Carl Orff Copy Share Image
We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi. — Cecilia Bartoli Copy Share Image
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never… — Steven Price 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 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
I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing… — Samuel Barber 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
It’s really strange, but they speak to me — the notes and the chords. So when I hear other people’s music, I… — Yanni Copy Share Image
I'd say for a film composer, 'Star Wars' is kind of like the holy grail of film music. It's probably the best… — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
What happens with a good score is, somehow the composer manages to cast himself or herself in the role of the protagonist.… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
