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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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