I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a… — Benjamin Britten Copy Share Image
I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background. — Alex Prager Copy Share Image
I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
Statistically in the UK, there are so many fewer female composers than male songwriters and they're marketed in a way that -… — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he… — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer. — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
'Jazz Artist of the Century' would have to be a distinctive soloist and ensemble player, a composer, an arranger, a bandleader, and… — Dave Douglas Copy Share Image
I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
A young pianist & composer who has demonstrated an exceptional creativity, in both his playing & his writing, as well as showing… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
I have kind of an intuitive feeling as a composer as to what would be appropriate for those groups and how to… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
Thank you, Wes... You've been a great inspiration. You are like a conductor. You are like a composer... You inspire us, all… — Milena Canonero Copy Share Image
We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi. — Cecilia Bartoli Copy Share Image
Every bit of theorizing I've ever done, including my interest in Berg, has come as a consequence of discoveries I made as… — George Perle Copy Share Image
I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
“Who needs to be a Phoenix for rebirth? One simply requires themselves and an instrument to clean the slate and start over,… — TheBakaViolinist Copy Share Image
Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach.… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
