It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I'm a fanatic about Irish music. I love its moody, modal and timeless quality. I'm different from some other composers, because I… — James Horner 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 had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim,… — Charlie Byrd 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
It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews. The Jews… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach… — Ernest Newman Copy Share Image
Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
I used to wish I could write songs like the others - and I've tried but I just can't. I get the… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
With a musical, you kind of have to do a mind-meld with the book-writer, the lyricist, the composer, the director - sometimes… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
I feel a composer should not crave to sing songs because songs itself decides its voice. The films where I have given… — Sonu Nigam Copy Share Image
Just as composers go to concerts and artists visit galleries, writers read. You will learn, in the most enjoyable way, more about… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were… — Michael Kosser 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
A lot of the so-called systems composers have this thing that the system is always right. You don't fiddle with it at… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There’s no card, business card, better than a compact disc for a composer. It doesn’t half impress people and they get a… — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
A few Disney TV composers had me pinch-hit writing some scoring cues to picture. Disney tapped me to be the composer for… — Danny Jacob 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
