If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character. — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
I think no composer knows he's creating a hit until the audience gives it a nod. — Amaal Mallik Copy Share Image
I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me. — Bulat Okudzhava Copy Share Image
The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead. — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
The people of your century no longer require the service of composers. A composer is as useful to a person in a… — Frank Zappa 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
If you want to give a twist to a song, I have no problem, but don't forget to mention the original composer's… — Anu Malik 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
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 have a team, the same team of filmmakers I worked with on 'Pi' and 'Requiem'. Which is my cameraman, and my… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down… — Phil Coulter Copy Share Image
The best results come when people believe in and feel strongly about the music they are playing. Just as composers write for… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer,… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
...in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
The first part of my career was indeed as a performer and recording artist, and I am still keenly involved with both.… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people get intimidated by the language of music, but everyone owns music. I think there's nothing standing… — Jeanine Tesori 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
Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life.… — Yanni Copy Share Image
I'm interested in what happens to music when other people use it. Whereas there are composers who don't like anyone to touch… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
When we play music we describe the echo the tableau of natural forms, their shapes and arrangements, as uncovered by the composer's… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
Each one of us in Café Tacvba is a composer and we come to the group with songs written out, musically and… — Ruben Isaac Albarran Ortega Copy Share Image
The use of electronics is a natural extension of the instrument - it is an electric guitar. So we guitarists have been… — Tim Brady Copy Share Image
As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it… — Alexander Borodin Copy Share Image
Songs give you incredible opportunity to convey a tremendous amount in a relatively short period of time. The first thing that John… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
We've always said we're a HEAVY METAL band. We've kinda branched out here and there - we've done a rap thing, we've… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle,… — Bix Beiderbecke Copy Share Image
To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both. — Leonard Bernstein 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
![“...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine connoisseur invited the composer to dinner. 'This is the Brahms of my cellar,' he said to his guests, producing a dust-covered bottle and pouring…” quote by Arthur Rubinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84f/arthur-rubinstein-17373_amused_stories-about-the-german-composer-johann_2777721.jpg)
