Been Quote by Bill Bruford

It's easy for me to write a quasi-virtuosic orchestral score. What is harder is to do that and say, all right, that works, but…

— James Newton Howard

Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score…

— Phil Coulter

When I'm scoring something like a string quartet, it's all notated music, so it's meticulously written in the score, which is very different than…

— Bryce Dessner

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

— Trevor Rabin

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

— David Benioff

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

— Placido Domingo

Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.

— Michael W. Smith

Well I mean I just sit at the piano and maybe figure out some harmony or melody or both. Sometimes you can hear it…

— Roy Hargrove

Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music.

— Edgar Wright

If I was talking about making a song special, I probably meant getting the lyrics and arrangement together, or getting some instrument that's going…

— John Britt Daniel

No matter how many scores I've written, the next project will hopefully be completely different. As hard as it is, I'm always trying to…

— John Keltonic

Usually, I make a simple beat, throw in the acapella, and then I just improvise on the piano. Whatever comes up, I record the…

— Shook