I'd say for a film composer, 'Star Wars' is kind of like the holy grail of film music. It's probably the best… — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
It’s really strange, but they speak to me — the notes and the chords. So when I hear other people’s music, I… — Yanni Copy Share Image
I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer.… — Richard Rodney Bennett Copy Share Image
I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing… — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz…you… — Keith Jarrett 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
As a composer, every project begins with either a blank sequence or a blank manuscript and for the first couple of days… — Lorne Balfe Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields… — Geoff Mulgan 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
The psychological detective story in "Equus" made Peter Shaffer's name as a playwright. But it was his next play, "Amadeus," that cemented… — Bob Mondello 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
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 go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never… — Steven Price Copy Share Image
We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi. — Cecilia Bartoli Copy Share Image
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a… — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that… — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
I don't believe in a composer who is only able to compose, who can't play or conduct, can only use a computer.… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
“It was clear that the composer no longer consoled himself with the thought that music could express everything and did not require… — Solomon Volkov Copy Share Image
If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be… — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us,… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
Pandit Pran Nath has given much of his later life to America and Europe and has influenced many of our younger composers. — Bernard Holland Copy Share Image
That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on -… — Morton Gould Copy Share Image
Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then… — Fernand Point Copy Share Image
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority. — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent… — Alex North Copy Share Image
I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned. — Toru Takemitsu Copy Share Image
I am proud to be able to claim that, from the age of nineteen, I've managed to earna living entirely as a… — Richard Rodney Bennett Copy Share Image
In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer. — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. — Ernest Newman Copy Share Image
I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
Every music composer has his or her own distinct style. If I listen to any song by - say Mithoon or AR… — Ankit Tiwari Copy Share Image
