Apprenticeship Quote by Anne Rice

You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A painter can…

— Anne Archer

The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing…

— Randy Newman

One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting.…

— Lennie James

I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.

— Andre Previn

Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

— Katherine Anne Porter

I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

— Howard Shore

I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces.

— Paul Lansky

If you look at somebody like Bach, he didn't need collaborators to write for keyboards, cello, violin or anything else. I feel the same…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

You have to live a life to become a writer.

— Joel Surnow

Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.

— Elliott Carter

Don't decide that you're going to be a writer or musician and just expect it to happen because it's a big gamble and a…

— Max Bemis

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent…

— Carla Bley