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• The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. — Ansel Adams
• To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted… — Dirk Benedict
• Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. — Hector Berlioz
• I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. — Leonard Bernstein
• Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven… — Johannes Brahms
• I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it. — Sarah Brightman
• I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger… — Sarah Brightman
• The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is… — Benjamin Britten
• When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes… — Dave Brubeck
• Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. — Pablo Casals
• I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you… — Tori Amos
• That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything -… — David Amram

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