It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver. — Morton Gould Copy Share Image
When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different… — Michael Bolton 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
I hope people just enjoy the music. I'm not worried about any sort of legacy. Whether people view me more as the… — Glenn Kotche Copy Share Image
I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are… — David Edelstein 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
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
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
If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and… — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
I grew up not really listening to guitar players. Especially when I was studying music, I was just interested in piano players… — Daniel Rossen Copy Share Image
Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels… — George Crumb Copy Share Image
Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Once embarked on a course of sensationalism, the composer is forced into a descending spiral spin from which only the most experienced… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music. Then, the music… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers… — Lion Feuchtwanger 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
If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer. — Benjamin Britten Copy Share Image
Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb. — Ludwig van Beethoven 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
