There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins. — Hans von Bulow Copy Share Image
I sort of enjoy being able to hear what other composers are doing and how they might score something differently than me.… — Marco Beltrami Copy Share Image
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime… — Benjamin Britten Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a composer, and I sort of went in to NYU as pre-med because I just thought, 'Well...… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks. — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into… — Barry Finnerty Copy Share Image
Human warmth is perhaps the most lacking in a composer who lives his life in a recording studio. — Fabio Frizzi Copy Share Image
Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas. — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
Mithoon is a composer who really likes to work a lot on his songs. He is like a small kid in the… — Jubin Nautiyal Copy Share Image
I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity,… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
It still amazes me how many musicians aren't really interested in engaging with their audience at all. Alfred Brendel, a pianist for… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
I'm an English songwriter/composer, working in Mandarin and trying to find something about Chinese culture that I really relate to and respect… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
I was always a composer since I was a kid, but the BMI Workshop is where the networking really all stems from.… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
In some ways, it is difficult for contemporary composers to find an audience. Both men and women would love a culture that… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though… — John Blacking Copy Share Image
The main thing the composer needs to do is it needs to remember that the director is there to cheer you on.… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the… — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
All is made clear,regarding Abraham and Sarah's traversal into Egypt, when we realize what biblicists meant by the term "Egypt." As Ralph… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
“A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I knew a gentleman that I had worked with over the years, who is no longer with us, and was a great… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
When people listen to my music, I hope that they will notice that if you take a piece by a composer like… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
I'm still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe. — Dhani Harrison Copy Share Image
A lot of composers I know hate temp scores because people get attached to them. — Steven Price Copy Share Image
It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love. — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose. — Alexander Borodin Copy Share Image
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
