The person you care for most is the composer of your emotional symphony — Danny Chang Copy Share Image
See, as a music composer, I am not competing with any music composer. — Ankit Tiwari Copy Share Image
To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again. — Arturo Toscanini Copy Share Image
People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go. — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does. — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer. — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows. — George Frideric Handel Copy Share Image
I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what… — James Tenney Copy Share Image
My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
I can play the guitar, the dulcimer, the piano, and the drums. However, I am not a "performance quality" musician. Rather, I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music. — Pepe Romero Copy Share Image
I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
When you think of Mitch Leigh as a businessman, remember he's also a composer. And when you think of Mitch Leigh as… — Mitch Leigh Copy Share Image
At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to… — Thomas Dolby Copy Share Image
I fool around with guitar and I can fool around on piano. I don't really play either instrument although I can play… — Frankie Laine Copy Share Image
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I'm an English songwriter/composer, working in Mandarin and trying to find something about Chinese culture that I really relate to and respect… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
In some ways, it is difficult for contemporary composers to find an audience. Both men and women would love a culture that… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity,… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
I don't claim to be a composer, and I realize my approach is pretty dopey in comparison to the true masters of… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Our life as consumers seems light years away from that of our grandparents. But you don't change human nature. Optimism, for me,… — Ed Mayo Copy Share Image
I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t. — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is! — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer. — Mitch Leigh Copy Share Image
The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me. — Bulat Okudzhava Copy Share Image
“A composer who can lift the spirit of a million people with a song, is a definite force for good.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer. — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
