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
I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just… — Ian Anderson 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
I was meant to be a composer. I was meant to meet my wife and have our three children. There were a… — Tom Kitt 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've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten… — Philip Glass 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
Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Pandit Pran Nath has given much of his later life to America and Europe and has influenced many of our younger composers. — Bernard Holland Copy Share Image
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
