I think no composer knows he's creating a hit until the audience gives it a nod. — Amaal Mallik Copy Share Image
If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character. — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
It's a very fun project as a composer to work on a movie that has music in its core. — Santhosh Narayanan Copy Share Image
My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily. — Gianni Versace Copy Share Image
It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best. — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
I sort of enjoy being able to hear what other composers are doing and how they might score something differently than me.… — Marco Beltrami Copy Share Image
Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime… — Benjamin Britten Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a composer, and I sort of went in to NYU as pre-med because I just thought, 'Well...… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that. — Samuel Barber 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
What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything… — Robert Moog Copy Share Image
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
In India, I have been called a 'destroyer.' But that is only because they mixed my identity as a performer and as… — Ravi Shankar 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
Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful canon, one of those pieces in which, surely, the composer simply transcribed… — Mark Helprin 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
The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though… — John Blacking 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
What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are… — Ernest Gold 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
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
One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer. — Benjamin Britten Copy Share Image
Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
“You are lyricist, me a composer - you and I make a complete song.” — Alexandra Monir 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
I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose. — Alexander Borodin Copy Share Image
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