I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit… — Raymond Scott Copy Share Image
You see the genius that Whitney Houston has as an interpreter of material, and you realize why genius can be applied to… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
I'm not a great guitarist, but I do bits and bobs. I'm mainly a songwriter and a composer. I've done a lot… — Matthew James Thomas Copy Share Image
There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads,… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I usually need a lot of time to be completely alone with the particular piece, the composer, and the instrument. I also… — Rafal Blechacz Copy Share Image
Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Since music is a reflection of our mindset and our culture, it is bound to change with time. I am glad that… — Sonu Nigam Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a film composer because I heard scores that could stand alone, from 'Vertigo' to 'Star Wars' to 'La… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in… — Christophe Beck Copy Share Image
It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, empathetic musicians, who are great individually but who also… — Joshua Redman Copy Share Image
I'm a geek and I'm a nerd, and I can listen into any piece of music. I think, I can usually tell… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
When you think about a composer you know like Wagner or Pier Boulez or something like that most of the issues a… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a… — Marco Tempest Copy Share Image
Notes are part of life for any composer for hire. There's no way around it. I think anyone who has done even… — Christophe Beck Copy Share Image
This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer to that would be,… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of Bach than in that of any other composer, is an ability… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
An artist makes something to be physically experienced by another person. It's a raw, freely chosen, interpersonal relationship between the maker and… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
Helmut Walcha was a gifted organist, improviser, and composer! He would play Evensong every week at his church for free, the Dreikönigskirche… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave… — Ben van Berkel Copy Share Image
The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel.… — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
There’s no card, business card, better than a compact disc for a composer. It doesn’t half impress people and they get a… — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
I was going to say is that I come from a rock background, but also I was super interested in jazz for… — Jherek Bischoff Copy Share Image
The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
We are God’s gift to each other. Like a master composer, He brings all the instruments together, each with a different tone,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd love to do a musical actually. My background is in music. I have a bachelors in music. I thought that I… — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer,… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary… — Milton Babbitt Copy Share Image
I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a… — Benjamin Britten Copy Share Image
I don't think they understand it's as important as math and science. It rounds you out as a person. I think it… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Gorecki, you know, there's a kind of personal thing there for me. I had, you know, kind of become obsessed with that… — Mahan Esfahani Copy Share Image
