Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they… — Edvard Grieg Copy Share Image
Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer. — Nellie Melba Copy Share Image
The composer does not want the self-sufficiency of a richly complex text: he or she wants to feel that the text is… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
“Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice. It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
Because a composer's soul goes into a film, they should do the entire film, even the background score. If not, then don't… — Jeet Gannguli Copy Share Image
A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show… — Vera Nazarian 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
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
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
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
I fool around with guitar and I can fool around on piano. I don't really play either instrument although I can play… — Frankie Laine Copy Share Image
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful canon, one of those pieces in which, surely, the composer simply transcribed… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I recall improvisational drummer and composer Michael Evans telling me a story of someone who had the opportunity to meet Cage and… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music,… — Cliff Martinez Copy Share Image
By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls. — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind… — Karen DeCrow 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
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
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
The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of… — Stewart Copeland Copy Share Image
I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background. — Alex Prager Copy Share Image
Don’t be sad by what you see It’s true life has it’s miseries But one thing’s always worked for me Worry ends… — Sami Yusuf Copy Share Image
I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music. — Vladimir Ashkenazy Copy Share Image
Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist. — John Eaton Copy Share Image
Every music composer has his or her own distinct style. If I listen to any song by - say Mithoon or AR… — Ankit Tiwari Copy Share Image
The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. — Ernest Newman Copy Share Image
There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling. — Harold Prince 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
I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned. — Toru Takemitsu Copy Share Image
Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent… — Alex North 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
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
