Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down… — Phil Coulter Copy Share Image
I've always had my ear peeled for interesting music. As a student, I regularly spent time hunting for interesting repertoire, looking through… — Anne Akiko Meyers Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I looked at art as a way of blending everything. One of my favorite composers is Wagner… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds. — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
The scientist is also a composer... You could think of science as discovering one particular thing - a supernova or whatever. You… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
In fact, if you take any group of scores, it's likely that fifty to sixty percent are going to be so much… — Jennifer Higdon Copy Share Image
My father was a very good amateur pianist, and he had a collection of books on technique. One of the things he… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
“(From Boulez, an authorized biography by Joan Peyser) At the chapel door he [a priest associated with a school Boulez attended] asked… — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
Is there a gender gap in the music industry? It is true that there are more professional male music creators than female.… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
Occasionally I hear a band that blows me away. For instance, there's a musician in Oakland named Weasel Walter who has a… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
Who can forget the music of the French composer Germaine Tailleferre? These are just a few composers whose aesthetic ideals we all… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how… — Arthur Rubinstein 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
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy… — Nino Rota Copy Share Image
But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the… — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
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