I listen to my songs as if it's a song made by some other composer. — Devi Sri Prasad Copy Share Image
A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius! — Pablo de Sarasate Copy Share Image
It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?' — Alfred Schnittke Copy Share Image
The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be. — Yanni 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
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now. — Neville Marriner Copy Share Image
In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which… — George Crumb Copy Share Image
A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
As far as being a 'player's player,' you've only got to go to Nashville or Argentina and you can forget about it.… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
A film just doesn't involve actors, a director and a producer, there is also the cameraman, the sound engineer, the music composer,… — Aamir Khan Copy Share Image
I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child,… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Every philharmonic orchestra merely interprets the composer. My goal was to create new music by that composer. In doing so, I wanted… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Copy Share Image
Tim Price continues to explore and develop his deeply personal approach to music. Through the years his persistence, determination and passion has… — Bennie Maupin Copy Share Image
Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky . The glory of science is not in a truth more… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works - he has an idea and he writes… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I went to Hollywood. I put the action in Hollywood. I watched a lot of movies, maybe 100 or something close to… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
Thankfully, it is getting better for women composers. We now have five women Pulitzer Prize winners in music since 1983: Ellen Taaffe… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
A few Disney TV composers had me pinch-hit writing some scoring cues to picture. Disney tapped me to be the composer for… — Danny Jacob Copy Share Image
The most important thing to remember is that the composer is a senior partner. You cannot force a subject on a composer… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
