Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent,… — Twyla Tharp 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
I think the seed was planted when I was a teenager, and it took me until I got out of Juilliard. At… — Tod Machover 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
I went to Hollywood. I put the action in Hollywood. I watched a lot of movies, maybe 100 or something close to… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
[Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
I think the tendency to paint composers or styles of music with too broad a brush - for example, identifying composers as… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
Once in a while, a teacher gets rewarded with a brilliant student. My two years with Dan Szabo at the New England… — Bob Brookmeyer 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
Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields… — Geoff Mulgan 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
I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that… — 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
I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the… — Jacques Ibert Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a composer before anything else. And my sister was listening to Led Zeppelin in the other room! When… — Steve Vai 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
I'm less interested in uniqueness than in goodness. I see so many concerts where the program notes are more interesting than the… — Anna Meredith Copy Share Image
Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal his genius.… — Anthony de Mello 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
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