It is a great feeling to be called an international composer in the true sense. — Anu Malik Copy Share Image
My entire family are in music and my father was a classical singer, teacher and composer. — Kumar Sanu Copy Share Image
I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I don't think that because l'm a composer I only have to compose music. — Joe Hisaishi Copy Share Image
Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.' — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach. — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream… — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer. — Fede Alvarez Copy Share Image
Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels… — George Crumb Copy Share Image
When you think of Mitch Leigh as a businessman, remember he's also a composer. And when you think of Mitch Leigh as… — Mitch Leigh Copy Share Image
If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer… — Harry S. Broudy Copy Share Image
Writing is a little athletic for me. I get worked up a little bit when I do it. So I guess I'm… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
In my study I can lay my hand on the Bible in the pitch dark. All truly inspired ideas come from God.… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
My first husband, John Barry, was a composer. I couldn't believe that this sophisticated, talented genius chose me and not any of… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by music and sounds. I was lucky to receive proper classical training as an orchestra player and I'm… — Lior Ron Copy Share Image
Louie Bellson represents the epitome of musical talent. His ability to cover the whole musical spectrum from an elite percussionist to a… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
It is only by demanding the impossible of the piano that you can obtain from it all that is possible. For the… — Heinrich Neuhaus Copy Share Image
Virgil Thomson, the great classical music critic, who was also a composer, but said that criticism was the only antidote he knew… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a play I hear it like music. I use the same indications that a composer does for duration. There's… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and… — Elliott Sharp Copy Share Image
There are great jazz educators that I meet all the time. I met a guy named Paul Luchessi who has a high… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
When we look at the arts and letters in America, especially if we look at poetry, and poetry set to music, this… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
'Jazz Artist of the Century' would have to be a distinctive soloist and ensemble player, a composer, an arranger, a bandleader, and… — Dave Douglas Copy Share Image
To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them. — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I discovered that I didn't want to be strict like a German composer. — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak. — Alexander Scriabin Copy Share Image
You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life. — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
It is quite normal these days to record a song in the absence of the composer. — Chinmayi Copy Share Image
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