Could Quote by Alexandre Desplat

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.

— Marvin Hamlisch

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

— Kate Bush

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I love stuff like Mozart.

— Robin Gibb

In a fit at the bookstore one day, I bought all my favourite composers' biographies: Schubert, Massenet, Wolf. I've still not had a chance…

— Danielle de Niese

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. He was really a hugely…

— Kate Bush

There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a…

— Robert Wyatt

I had to go to an audition for a rather large West End musical set on a Greek island. I didn't realise that you…

— Mel Giedroyc

Music has always taken me to another plane of existence.

— Judith Durham

Stravinskys music, hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous, was now the favorite of my postadolescence. In a different way it achieved the hard,…

— George Antheil

Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.

— Billy Cannon

My music would be very, very different if I haven't traveled.

— Jain