I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by… — Joseph Haydn Copy Share Image
Battlestar Galactica' was my first job as a composer. To say that it changed my life is the understatement of the century. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience… — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
I simply love Wagner's music. That actually started very early. He was the first composer I was exposed very much to because… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
When you work with a good composer, you don't tell him what to write. If he knows your playing, he will do… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Although in society in general, the idea of an Irish composer of 'classical music', or whatever you want to call it, is… — John Kinsella Copy Share Image
Be persistent. Establishing yourself in this field could easily take years. Rarely will any composer get that one "big break." More often,… — John Keltonic Copy Share Image
Purcell is a composer who had a formative influence on British music - even The Who now cite him as an influence.… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
To talk about communication theory without communicating its real mathematical content would be like endlessly telling a man about a wonderful composer,… — John R. Pierce Copy Share Image
It's funny because as a composer, you want to hear your songs live on. I think a lot of times people will… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Genetically, I have tons of musical background in my life. My mother's father was a famous Weimar-era composer, Ernst Toch. My father's… — Lawrence Weschler Copy Share Image
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests… — Carl Orff Copy Share Image
What is so beautiful about a composer and a lyricist is that their job is to push a story along and not… — Keala Settle Copy Share Image
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go. — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also. — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
With every film, for which I'm the only composer, I try to switch genres. I find that really exciting. — Amaal Mallik 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
As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines. — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see… — Esa-Pekka Salonen 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
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
Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity — Vladimir Nabokov 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
I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy… — Giorgio Moroder 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
Both costume and fashion are about telling a story, except that in a ballet the story has already been written by the… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language. — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
If you're the sort of person that likes a job where once you know what you're doing you can keep doing what… — Henry Jackman Copy Share Image
I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the… — Jacques Ibert Copy Share Image
In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one. — Sxip Shirey Copy Share Image
I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and… — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
Any composer should be able to synthesize the primary feelings that the characters are going through in the movie. — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day. — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
