I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I have always loved composers who have been connected with folk traditions of popular music. — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
I think TV composers don't get enough credit. I really think it is one of the hardest jobs. — Lorne Balfe Copy Share Image
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. — Howard Dietz Copy Share Image
Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors. — Shaan Copy Share Image
Some composers end up writing for the guitar as they would write piano music or, more often, harp music. It isn't the… — Julian Bream 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
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
Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to… — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries.… — Mike Love 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
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
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
My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen… — Patti LuPone 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
With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared -… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
“Handel's yearning for independence from the traditional chains of patronage and his persistence in monitoring his productions resulted with unique developments concerning… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every… — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career,… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“Composers do not remember this lost fatherland, but each of them remains all his life unconsciously attuned to it; he is delirious… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Something is conscious of us. It listens as it plays upon the instruments that we are. It takes delight in the cacophony,… — Dielle Ciesco Copy Share Image
