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
If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be… — Peter Maxwell Davies 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
“It was clear that the composer no longer consoled himself with the thought that music could express everything and did not require… — Solomon Volkov 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
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
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
Jerry Goldsmith, I have to say, is my single favorite composer of all time. He was one of the most innovative guys… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to… — Thomas Dolby Copy Share Image
In India, I have been called a 'destroyer.' But that is only because they mixed my identity as a performer and as… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I have written six symphonies, they are smaller-scale works. I seem to emit my themes, work them out, combine and intertwine them,… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though… — John Blacking Copy Share Image
The main thing the composer needs to do is it needs to remember that the director is there to cheer you on.… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not… — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
I'm an English songwriter/composer, working in Mandarin and trying to find something about Chinese culture that I really relate to and respect… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
In some ways, it is difficult for contemporary composers to find an audience. Both men and women would love a culture that… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
I was always a composer since I was a kid, but the BMI Workshop is where the networking really all stems from.… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
It still amazes me how many musicians aren't really interested in engaging with their audience at all. Alfred Brendel, a pianist for… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity,… — Virgil Thomson 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
Around eighth grade I decided I wanted to be a composer and that's what I went to college for. Just a few… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy… — Nino Rota Copy Share Image
As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet… — John Luther Adams Copy Share Image
I don't claim to be a composer, and I realize my approach is pretty dopey in comparison to the true masters of… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
For my qualifying concert, Helmut Walcha would not coach Charles-Marie Widor or any American compositions. In his defense, his forte was Germanic… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Louie Bellson represents the epitome of musical talent. His ability to cover the whole musical spectrum from an elite percussionist to a… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by music and sounds. I was lucky to receive proper classical training as an orchestra player and I'm… — Lior Ron Copy Share Image
Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
My first husband, John Barry, was a composer. I couldn't believe that this sophisticated, talented genius chose me and not any of… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
“(From Boulez, an authorized biography by Joan Peyser) At the chapel door he [a priest associated with a school Boulez attended] asked… — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
Music and songs have always been a constant part of my life, and still are. My brother Michael, who is a songwriter… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
When I finally got together with Rostropovich as a student, he was very focused, almost entirely focused on the music itself, on… — David Finckel 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
If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau 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
When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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