Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing. — Kate Smith 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 was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression. — Camille Saint-Saens Copy Share Image
I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz. — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not… — Hanns Eisler Copy Share Image
With a musical, you kind of have to do a mind-meld with the book-writer, the lyricist, the composer, the director - sometimes… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
I think the tendency to paint composers or styles of music with too broad a brush - for example, identifying composers as… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
As a screen composer or film-music writer, I need something that I can work with in the body of the score. Like… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for… — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
“Many contemporary composers have been building walls of sounds following their own clever devices. But then, who lives inside those rooms?” — Toru Takemitsu Copy Share Image
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have… — Carla Bley Copy Share Image
To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be,… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
The first season of 'Human Target' was to me the pinnacle of my career as a composer. It pushed me to become… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I always go back to the original material. I want a good connection as the composer and writer of the score to… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz. — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change... is that I really need to go… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I'm like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, I'm still going to be asking for… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
I won the national award for the best music composer and also had the fortune of scoring music for songs penned by… — Vidyasagar Copy Share Image
I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer. — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
There was nothing extraordinary about the work I was doing as a composer though I had delivered hits. — Vijay Antony Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better… — Jerome Kern Copy Share Image
I think actors really like to know what does a casting agent really think or what does a composer really think. — Julie Halston Copy Share Image
