[Phil wood] put on some [Igor] Stravinsky and say to follow the score, tell me to play me the opening to the… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
The scientist is also a composer... You could think of science as discovering one particular thing - a supernova or whatever. You… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must… — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only… — Alban Berg Copy Share Image
Who can forget the music of the French composer Germaine Tailleferre? These are just a few composers whose aesthetic ideals we all… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do… — Johannes Rau Copy Share Image
The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
That is the operatic problem; the singer must keep up a big head of steam while trying to appear secretive, or seductive,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained… — Phil Woods Copy Share Image
My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen… — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
“How strange and god-like was a composer's power, who from the grave could lead through sequences of emotion, which he alone had… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The generation of composers that are just preceded me, people like [Karlheinz] Stockhausen, [Pierre] Boulez, and, well, [John] Cage for that matter,[Morton]… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
When I got out of college I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if… — J.K. Simmons Copy Share Image
I hope people just enjoy the music. I'm not worried about any sort of legacy. Whether people view me more as the… — Glenn Kotche Copy Share Image
I grew up with these amazing shows, like 'Les Mis,' 'Phantom,' 'Joseph,' 'Wicked,' and if I ever had the chance to work… — Carrie Hope Fletcher Copy Share Image
It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I've been kind of listening to the composer Britten and his rendition of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The opening track is a… — Dev Hynes Copy Share Image
I didn't know music either, but I became a composer. Acting too is like that. It's like cooking for your siblings when… — Vijay Antony Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks,… — Thomas Powers Copy Share Image
The composer must bear in mind that the radio listener does not hear music directly. He hears it only after the sound… — Raymond Scott Copy Share Image
“Like all great works, it manages to be great without trying to be brilliant. It just is, and effortlessly so. . .… — Milo Behr Copy Share Image
If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all… — Frederick Corder Copy Share Image
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge of it is figuring out… — Caroline Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm the only composer who has scored for two-three generation of actors. Be it for Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan or Dharmendra, Sunny… — Bappi Lahiri Copy Share Image
When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I could create music that sounded as strange as any electronic music, because you see, my opinion about electronic music is that… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared -… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
That's what I love - on 'The Farewell,' we played with a lot of silence and a lot of negative space, and… — Lulu Wang Copy Share Image
It's got to feel, the pulse has to feel like this part of the world, the instrumentation has to be true to… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians… — Bradley Joseph Copy Share Image
After I found out that I was playing music and that I'd have to learn how to read and write music, I… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
![“[Phil wood] put on some [Igor] Stravinsky and say to follow the score, tell me to play me the opening to the Rite of Spring. Or, "I'm going to play you some 20th century obscure classical composer you don't know". Or, "Let's listen to some Charles Ives, let's sight read some Bartok violin duets"…” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee1/jon-gordon-1655_20th-century_phil-wood-put-on-some-igor-stravinsky-an_1463042.jpg)
![“The generation of composers that are just preceded me, people like [Karlheinz] Stockhausen, [Pierre] Boulez, and, well, [John] Cage for that matter,[Morton] Feldman ... That was a kind of experimental music that was very isolated. It had no real public.” quote by Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0e/philip-glass-14533_cages_the-generation-of-composers-that-are-jus_789302.jpg)
![“Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience; that all his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning - the music itself, which, after…” quote by Leonard Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f0/leonard-bernstein-10475_audience_perhaps-the-chief-requirement-of-the-con_2046281.jpg)
![“Like all great works, it manages to be great without trying to be brilliant. It just is, and effortlessly so. . . . [Has a] rhythm that's sophisticated in its subdivisions of time and its impeccable sense of proportion and pace. —James Guymon Film Composer VP, Composers Guild of America” quote by Milo Behr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98b/milo-behr-93832_composer_like-all-great-works-it-manages-to-be-gr_2280399.jpg)
![“It's got to feel, the pulse has to feel like this part of the world, the instrumentation has to be true to that, and so, between him, [composer] Mark Mancina and myself, we really chased that, while serving our story Moana].” quote by Lin-Manuel Miranda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/490/lin-manuel-miranda-2352_being-true_it-s-got-to-feel-the-pulse-has-to-feel-l_1160032.jpg)
