My interactions with musicians have been simply that: interactions with musicians. Issues of gender, or anything else beyond the music-making, have in… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
I suppose I was affected by raw sounds and timbres more than a lot of other composers. Had I been involved with… — Wendy Carlos Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a film composer. So very early on I started collecting soundtracks and paying attention to how movie… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together - with a thin paste of… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
“No one understands another’s grief, no one understands another’s joy. . . . My music is the product of my talent and… — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
Drummers get bored. You tell them to play something simple, and it gets more complicated as they do it. If they're not… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
The musical culture in the United States has no doubt suffered severe setbacks, especially in funding, since the early 2000's. However, I've… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know -… — Claude Debussy 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
The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among… — Cornelius Lanczos Copy Share Image
“There was that sound again--snap, then a footfall. She tried to whirl around as a dark form--Dear God--sprang with a splash from… — Kaye George Copy Share Image
Our interpretations through the years and generations have always changed, but the emotions, ideas, and the thoughts of the composers are still… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
One important thing, just being a film composer in general, is to have a great respect for the art that you're working… — Joseph Trapanese Copy Share Image
Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s… — Yanni Copy Share Image
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Becoming a father allowed me to become a much better composer, because it allowed me to have tremendous patience. I have much… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
When you hear composer, you think, like, Beethoven: guy in a powdered wig, at a piano, furiously scribbling on manuscript paper. That's… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I have always personally preferred to think of what is more difficult for my instrument, and not what is the most natural… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
Every piece of music is a form of personal expression for its creator...If a work doesnt express the composers own personal point… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Music critics have made it quite clear that any composer who ever contributed a four-bar jingle to a film was to be… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
One of my heroes is a composer named James Bernard, and oh my God... I can still listen to his music today… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
A mission that comes from the heart to promote these things and to encourage composers to write, then of course they should… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
Historically, there is a fight between the sound designer and the composer. You see them in the mixing room and they're always… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
These days I think the composers of music influence me more than any photographers or visual creators. I see something exciting or… — Ralph Steiner Copy Share Image
I usually work with the director and it's just a collaboration between me and the one person. I think you make good… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
New Amsterdam Records, a new label run by composers, has begun documenting this hybrid music, with invigorating discs by the band itsnotyouitsme… — Allan Kozinn Copy Share Image
I have often read critical pieces where the critic said that what the composer was trying to do didn't come off. I… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger… — Jean-Jacques Nattiez 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
Composition is interesting because, in a sense, you always have to let it go. Unless you're a true composer/performer, you're always sending… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
The composer must bear in mind that the radio listener does not hear music directly. He hears it only after the sound… — Raymond Scott Copy Share Image
“Like all great works, it manages to be great without trying to be brilliant. It just is, and effortlessly so. . .… — Milo Behr Copy Share Image
The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks,… — Thomas Powers Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
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've been kind of listening to the composer Britten and his rendition of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The opening track is a… — Dev Hynes Copy Share Image
I grew up with these amazing shows, like 'Les Mis,' 'Phantom,' 'Joseph,' 'Wicked,' and if I ever had the chance to work… — Carrie Hope Fletcher Copy Share Image
![“Like all great works, it manages to be great without trying to be brilliant. It just is, and effortlessly so. . . . [Has a] rhythm that's sophisticated in its subdivisions of time and its impeccable sense of proportion and pace. —James Guymon Film Composer VP, Composers Guild of America” quote by Milo Behr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/98b/milo-behr-93832_quote_like-all-great-works-it-manages-to-be-gr_2280399.jpg)
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