“You are lyricist, me a composer - you and I make a complete song.” — Alexandra Monir Copy Share Image
Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer. — Benjamin Britten Copy Share Image
It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best. — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“You're composing not in relation to the spectacle, but in relation to the drama on the screen.” — HowardStone Copy Share Image
I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what… — James Tenney Copy Share Image
The most important person is the audience and the composer. The rest of us - and even the composer is a servant… — Dolora Zajick Copy Share Image
You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award. — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
“You are the composer and conductor and thus decide what key of life to live. I choose major over minor whenever I… — Susan Reynolds Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I started very young, so I read music very well. And my favorite composers to play are Brahms and Mozart. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't… — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly… — Jascha Heifetz Copy Share Image
If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not… — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
In India, I have been called a 'destroyer.' But that is only because they mixed my identity as a performer and as… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I have written six symphonies, they are smaller-scale works. I seem to emit my themes, work them out, combine and intertwine them,… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
I recall improvisational drummer and composer Michael Evans telling me a story of someone who had the opportunity to meet Cage and… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to… — Thomas Dolby Copy Share Image
Jerry Goldsmith, I have to say, is my single favorite composer of all time. He was one of the most innovative guys… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful canon, one of those pieces in which, surely, the composer simply transcribed… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Three of tonights performers are members of the group Return To One, whose album Hopes and Dreams I heard for the first… — Mike Keneally Copy Share Image
Presenting Aschenbach as a composer - based on Mahler - leads to some dreadful scenes (especially those in which Aschenbach is berated… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
For instance, members of the elite will never allow their children to become musicians normally, because it's - not embarrassing - but… — Ayshay Copy Share Image
The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a… — Bernard Herrmann Copy Share Image
Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music,… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
“Having renounced his native land, Sanger adopted no other. He roved about from one European capital to another, never settling anywhere for… — Margaret Kennedy Copy Share Image
Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
If you're a composer, there's never a moment you're not working. — Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Copy Share Image
