If you're a composer, there's never a moment you're not working. — Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Copy Share Image
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now. — Neville Marriner Copy Share Image
Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which… — George Crumb Copy Share Image
In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be. — Yanni Copy Share Image
I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians… — Bradley Joseph Copy Share Image
With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter… — Maurice Jarre Copy Share Image
Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not… — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
Around eighth grade I decided I wanted to be a composer and that's what I went to college for. Just a few… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet… — John Luther Adams 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've always been fascinated by music and sounds. I was lucky to receive proper classical training as an orchestra player and I'm… — Lior Ron Copy Share Image
Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you… — Gunther Schuller 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
I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people. — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical… — John Cale Copy Share Image
Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified. — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I am probably the only composer in South India who has delivered many superhit songs but was not considered a success. — Vidyasagar Copy Share Image
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I am a passionate, committed composer, and the guy I used to write musicals with, once he was able to ditch me… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop… — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the… — Neville Cardus Copy Share Image
Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer. — Marilyn Horne Copy Share Image
Each composer has their own language, and I try to meet the challenges, even if at first sight, they appear impossible. — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Mozart for me is the No. 1 composer. His music is not just joy or sadness. It's deep emotion with a touch… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
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