By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls. — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music,… — Cliff Martinez Copy Share Image
If I were reborn, if I were a teen-ager now, starting my career as a composer, I would do again what I… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
The composer does not want the self-sufficiency of a richly complex text: he or she wants to feel that the text is… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
“Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice. It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they… — Edvard Grieg Copy Share Image
Miranda [Hentoff] is a complete musician. She's a composer, a singer. She writes scripts along - with her projects. And she's a… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
My entire education in music was in reading interviews with bands like Stereolab and finding out about Brazilian music or a Romanian… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I grew up not really listening to guitar players. Especially when I was studying music, I was just interested in piano players… — Daniel Rossen Copy Share Image
Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
As your relationship with the music gets stronger, so does your motivation for playing it and finding different sounds. If you have… — Maurizio Pollini Copy Share Image
Just recently, I thought about how maybe I should have kept using the synthesisers more after 'Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence'; then, I… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
Paul McCartney is a genius ... Paul married Rock & Roll to beauty, and forever raised the bar for composers, musicians, and… — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a remix is good because it reaches a whole new generation. But when it gets too much, it's irritating. Also, the… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer. — Nellie Melba Copy Share Image
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a… — Levi Strauss Copy Share Image
I have declared that I will work free of cost with those composers who are passionate about their work. Sohail Sen is… — Sukhwinder Singh Copy Share Image
The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is! — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
Communists love to make films about composers because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things. — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience. — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
I came across a lot of young composers who have got passion but lack experience. I want to help them out. — Sukhwinder Singh Copy Share Image
Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public cold spring water. — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
As a composer I could never find use for over 4 or 5 notes in any musical number, and as a playwright… — George M. Cohan Copy Share Image
Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
What's great about [Guettel] is his very distinct voice as a composer. And that distinct voice is something worth cherishing and expressing… — Bartlett Sher Copy Share Image
I was offered a few shows, but the money didn't work out, but I'm not very keen on judging such shows. I'm… — Pritam Chakraborty Copy Share Image
Writing for TV or films isn't great art. You have to have a common denominator. It's up to the composer to make… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
In the 1990s music was a beautiful collaborative process between the composer, lyricist and director. They would exchange ideas and magic used… — Amit Trivedi Copy Share Image
The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I'm a fanatic about Irish music. I love its moody, modal and timeless quality. I'm different from some other composers, because I… — James Horner Copy Share Image
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