I grew up on Bach and Beethoven and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he… — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
Men have been in the forefront of music for centuries, and they have written glorious music, loved and appreciated by many. In… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
it's important as a composer to sit in silence and imagine these complex musical worlds in your head, but it's also a… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
After I found out that I was playing music and that I'd have to learn how to read and write music, I… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians… — Bradley Joseph Copy Share Image
It's got to feel, the pulse has to feel like this part of the world, the instrumentation has to be true to… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared -… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
That's what I love - on 'The Farewell,' we played with a lot of silence and a lot of negative space, and… — Lulu Wang Copy Share Image
I could create music that sounded as strange as any electronic music, because you see, my opinion about electronic music is that… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge of it is figuring out… — Caroline Shaw Copy Share Image
Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all… — Frederick Corder Copy Share Image
“You are the composer and conductor and thus decide what key of life to live. I choose major over minor whenever I… — Susan Reynolds Copy Share Image
I don't think that because l'm a composer I only have to compose music. — Joe Hisaishi Copy Share Image
I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer. — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
First of all, with due respect to my dad, he wasn't an ace composer. He never got the success that my uncle… — Amaal Mallik Copy Share Image
Thank you, Wes... You've been a great inspiration. You are like a conductor. You are like a composer... You inspire us, all… — Milena Canonero Copy Share Image
As a composer, every project begins with either a blank sequence or a blank manuscript and for the first couple of days… — Lorne Balfe Copy Share Image
I really want to become, like, a composer for my people, my country that will photograph the things that are happening now… — Natalia Lafourcade Copy Share Image
The most important person is the audience and the composer. The rest of us - and even the composer is a servant… — Dolora Zajick Copy Share Image
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