I'm a very style-driven composer, and I like to give every project its own unique stamp. — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally. — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise. — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future. — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
I'm a composer. I know nothing about money and commercial stuff. I just write music. — Vangelis Copy Share Image
Every composer understands and uses the system of notation differently, and that's what makes you appreciate the trouble they go through in… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop… — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
I am a passionate, committed composer, and the guy I used to write musicals with, once he was able to ditch me… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services. — Cliff Martinez Copy Share Image
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
Once in a while, a teacher gets rewarded with a brilliant student. My two years with Dan Szabo at the New England… — Bob Brookmeyer Copy Share Image
I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics,… — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Fred Sturm has proven to be a great asset to the musical world as a teacher, composer and author. His gifts have… — Bob Brookmeyer Copy Share Image
A young pianist & composer who has demonstrated an exceptional creativity, in both his playing & his writing, as well as showing… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
I was playing in a band and was approached to score an independent film. I had never done it, but had written… — Douglas Pipes Copy Share Image
the writer must resist this temptation [to quote] and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
I've certainly stayed a marginal figure, though I became a member of the "surveillance committee" fairly early on. I can actually live… — Mauricio Kagel Copy Share Image
In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
My pieces usually are programmed on concerts in which the other works are standard repertoire. My music always sounds very different when… — Jennifer Higdon Copy Share Image
Is there a gender gap in the music industry? It is true that there are more professional male music creators than female.… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
“It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“In major movies these days, the fine details of music, instrumentation and sound design are lost. This is a shame, and it… — Julius Dobos Copy Share Image
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