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
I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer. — Mitch Leigh Copy Share Image
If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream… — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels… — George Crumb Copy Share Image
I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach. — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
“You're composing not in relation to the spectacle, but in relation to the drama on the screen.” — HowardStone Copy Share Image
Human warmth is perhaps the most lacking in a composer who lives his life in a recording studio. — Fabio Frizzi 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
The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into… — Barry Finnerty 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
When we work on a piece of music, we'll often read the biographies of the composer and learn about what was going… — Helene Grimaud Copy Share Image
If I take that person and play them as a record I'm becoming not only a conductor and composer of collage, but… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of 20th century orchestral music, the experimental avant-garde composers of the '50s, '60s, and '70s. In horror movies you… — Christopher Young 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
Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the… — Emile Jaques-Dalcroze Copy Share Image
Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before writing a single note of music, and even before the spotting session, I find it best to sit down with the… — John Keltonic Copy Share Image
Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
“Having renounced his native land, Sanger adopted no other. He roved about from one European capital to another, never settling anywhere for… — Margaret Kennedy Copy Share Image
As to...old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was composing before I realised I was a composer. It came more or less naturally. There were a couple of old… — Richard Meale 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
All is made clear,regarding Abraham and Sarah's traversal into Egypt, when we realize what biblicists meant by the term "Egypt." As Ralph… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
I knew a gentleman that I had worked with over the years, who is no longer with us, and was a great… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me. — Bulat Okudzhava 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
To be a composer, you have to be a die-hard music lover - which I am. — Devi Sri Prasad Copy Share Image
It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver. — Morton Gould Copy Share Image
