Composer Quotes

392 quotes by 291 authors

I feel a composer should not crave to sing songs because songs itself decides its voice. The films where I have given music, I have… — Sonu Nigam
I think of myself as a film composer. — John Williams
Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out… — John Williams
Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores. — Quincy Jones
The scientist is also a composer... You could think of science as discovering one particular thing - a supernova or whatever. You could also think… — Lisa Randall
A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express different… — Howard Shore
I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination of a great… — Howard Shore
Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music and… — Robert Lopez
The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected… — Albert Murray
In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer. — Bob Fosse
I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next… — Steven Price
To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant. — Mitch Leigh
In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer. — Fede Alvarez
I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer. — Mitch Leigh
To find a new British composer who is really good is rare. — Tim Rice
Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in… — Max Heindel
In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play. — Karen DeCrow
Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is… — Karen DeCrow
You see the genius that Whitney Houston has as an interpreter of material, and you realize why genius can be applied to only a few… — Clive Davis
It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love. — Gian Carlo Menotti

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