it's important as a composer to sit in silence and imagine these complex musical worlds in your head, but it's also a… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
When I was done with high school, I knew that music was really important to me and I knew I didn't want… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he… — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
Men have been in the forefront of music for centuries, and they have written glorious music, loved and appreciated by many. In… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could… — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
I grew up on Bach and Beethoven and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
As a composer you want to tell musicians two completely contradictory things. You want to say, "Play exactly what I wrote, but… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
Statistically in the UK, there are so many fewer female composers than male songwriters and they're marketed in a way that -… — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies… — Itay Talgam Copy Share Image
It's so interesting, you know, whenever you read the accounts of composers playing their own music, that they had very different priorities… — Helene Grimaud Copy Share Image
Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art;… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
George Rochberg once said that 'to be a composer, you need to have fire in the belly, fire in the brain, but… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
A Composer who hears sounds will try to find a notation for sounds. One who has ideas will find one that expresses… — Cornelius Cardew Copy Share Image
As an example, there is a Japanese composer / singer whose name is Tanimura [Shinji]: he has composed a song entitled entitled… — Richard Clayderman Copy Share Image
I was starting a group of musicians and we had a group of young composers in Finland back in the '70s, and… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic… — J. J. Johnson Copy Share Image
Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
As a pianist, our particular role is to enter a piece and its logic and create a particular interpretation from our understanding.… — Rafal Blechacz Copy Share Image
Criticism will survive even if no one's paying for it. Obviously it's better if people are paying for it. But the fact… — Ignatiy Vishnevetsky Copy Share Image
Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have… — Olivier Messiaen Copy Share Image
It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony… — William Beebe Copy Share Image
As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach. I love Paganini, too, the… — Matt Schulze Copy Share Image
I listen to new music by composers who are interesting to me. I listen to some; I don't know if I want… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
There is no "End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished.… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
[We need] someone like Don Sickler, who is an amazing trumpet player and who is also a publisher and amazing producer and… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn't hurt to celebrate the piano and… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-actor because you're working… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music… — Ted Shawn Copy Share Image
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![“As an example, there is a Japanese composer / singer whose name is Tanimura [Shinji]: he has composed a song entitled entitled "Kazeno Komoriuta" and I have recorded my piano adaptation of this song and honestly I couldn't expect that it would be so difficult and challenging for me to perform my…” quote by Richard Clayderman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fdb/richard-clayderman-27290_adaptation_as-an-example-there-is-a-japanese-compos_3010506.jpg)
![“[We need] someone like Don Sickler, who is an amazing trumpet player and who is also a publisher and amazing producer and composer and arranger. There's a lot of ways you can make a contribution.” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b6/jon-gordon-1655_composer_we-need-someone-like-don-sickler-who-is_2836460.png)
![“You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being like, "We are the end of music. We are the end of this tradition. Music is done."” quote by David Longstreth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0aa/david-longstreth-8561_20th-century_you-think-about-like-20th-century-classi_2113030.jpg)
