Changed Quote by Esa-Pekka Salonen

I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.

— Mitch Leigh

I think that the first World War put an end the kind of music that Mahler, Bruckner and Richard Strauss were writing. A change…

— Julian Bream

Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he not been…

— Gail Zappa

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

— Igor Stravinsky

I think every classically trained film composer feels to some extent, maybe on some level, that they took the low road, that they could…

— James Newton Howard

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from…

— Milton Babbitt

Battlestar Galactica' was my first job as a composer. To say that it changed my life is the understatement of the century.

— Bear McCreary

If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character.

— Ludwig Goransson

Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music…

— Robert Lopez

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That…

— Robert Morris

I'm a geek and I'm a nerd, and I can listen into any piece of music. I think, I can usually tell you what…

— Hans Zimmer

The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.

— Wendell Berry