Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity. — Gustav Holst Copy Share Image
As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
...in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas. — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally. — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
Music and songs have always been a constant part of my life, and still are. My brother Michael, who is a songwriter… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
As your relationship with the music gets stronger, so does your motivation for playing it and finding different sounds. If you have… — Maurizio Pollini Copy Share Image
“Sometime in high school it dawned on me that perhaps I was a little different...I realized music wasn't swirling in the minds… — Robin Spielberg Copy Share Image
Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky . The glory of science is not in a truth more… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Pandit Pran Nath has given much of his later life to America and Europe and has influenced many of our younger composers. — Bernard Holland Copy Share Image
Writing is a little athletic for me. I get worked up a little bit when I do it. So I guess I'm… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn't hurt to celebrate the piano and… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I've been a full-time composer for many years, and I'm still learning all the time. There is always more than one musical… — John Keltonic Copy Share Image
It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love. — Gian Carlo Menotti 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
“A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit… — Raymond Scott Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
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