Always fighting Quote by Alfonso Cuaron

It's funny because as a composer, you want to hear your songs live on. I think a lot of times people will create a…

— Christian Scott

Some directors can become concerned when it comes to music, because it's the end of the process and they're tired. They're worried that the…

— Alexandre Desplat

Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop…

— Hilary Hahn

In most multiple composer situations, you find it because someone got nervous about the music and insisted that somebody else come in and help.

— James Newton Howard

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak

— Michael Bolton

When you think about a composer you know like Wagner or Pier Boulez or something like that most of the issues a composer is…

— DJ Spooky

See, as a music composer, I am not competing with any music composer.

— Ankit Tiwari

Being a composer is a little like being a painter. Sometimes you hire a painter because you want a beautiful painting for your wall,…

— Bear McCreary

The composer must bear in mind that the radio listener does not hear music directly. He hears it only after the sound has passed…

— Raymond Scott

A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express…

— Howard Shore

It's so interesting, you know, whenever you read the accounts of composers playing their own music, that they had very different priorities than performers.…

— Helene Grimaud

Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the…

— Virgil Thomson