As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and… — Bernard Herrmann Copy Share Image
The reality is each new day and each project is another opportunity to learn, experiment and try something I haven't done before.… — Jason Graves Copy Share Image
Presenting Aschenbach as a composer - based on Mahler - leads to some dreadful scenes (especially those in which Aschenbach is berated… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Communists love to make films about composers because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things. — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
the writer must resist this temptation [to quote] and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
“The Prince stood beside the timpanist to count his rests for him and see that he came in in the right place.… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-actor because you're working… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
When you are known as this cutting-edge composer all the time... it's no longer cutting-edge. — Du Yun Copy Share Image
The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of Bach than in that of any other composer, is an ability… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
I'm blessed to be working with wizards like Vishal Bhardwaj as well as many young composers. — Sukhwinder Singh Copy Share Image
If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances? — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel.… — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
“In major movies these days, the fine details of music, instrumentation and sound design are lost. This is a shame, and it… — Julius Dobos Copy Share Image
What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The music of Gavin Bryars falls under no category. It is mongrel, full of sensuality and wit and is deeply moving. He… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer. — Kurt Ralske Copy Share Image
Every composer understands and uses the system of notation differently, and that's what makes you appreciate the trouble they go through in… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
As a pianist, our particular role is to enter a piece and its logic and create a particular interpretation from our understanding.… — Rafal Blechacz Copy Share Image
As an example, there is a Japanese composer / singer whose name is Tanimura [Shinji]: he has composed a song entitled entitled… — Richard Clayderman Copy Share Image
I have a team, the same team of filmmakers I worked with on 'Pi' and 'Requiem'. Which is my cameraman, and my… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
Opinion in all parts of the world would agree that Rachmaninoff is the most complete of living masters of the instrument; his… — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a… — Levi Strauss Copy Share Image
It's so interesting, you know, whenever you read the accounts of composers playing their own music, that they had very different priorities… — Helene Grimaud Copy Share Image
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