America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people. — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Tom Kitt aside - he's in his own category with me, of course - Stephen Sondheim is one of my all-time favorite… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
“All Bach's last movements are like the running of a sewing machine. (on Bach)” — Arnold Bax Copy Share Image
I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups. — David Del Tredici Copy Share Image
A thousand composers couldn't create a soundtrack as lovely as your voice. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America. — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
I admire Turgenev, Camus, Proust and Shakespeare, but I've also learnt a lot about writing from composers and artists. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
My advice to composers is, 'Try to reach 90, and everyone will love you.' — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were… — Robert Coppola Schwartzman Copy Share Image
It's no longer unusual for real avant-garde composers to have been in a band, and for bands to be interested in a… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity… — George Crumb Copy Share Image
People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire;… — Robert A Schumann (German Romantic Composer Copy Share Image
I look at composers and conductors, anybody involved in music or writing or art in general; they got more done as they… — Sarah Brightman 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 think we have a lot in common with classical composers of the 19th century, although I'm not claiming to have their… — Matt Bellamy 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
In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
I took classical piano for a couple of years, but I sort of lost interest - I couldn't read a note today… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
“Having considered Handel's tumultuous opera career and his first term at Covent Garden in the 1730s, perhaps we may dare to suggest… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
Modern European composers...have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
To spend any time with someone who is among the top five film composers of the last 50 years is pure gold… — Henry Jackman Copy Share Image
There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
Composers and lyricists are not responsible for storyline and casting. One can imagine actors shouldering this responsibility, since they charge for half… — Shaan 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
“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
