Composer Quote by Henry Mancini Download Open image “You've got to be an editor in order to be a good composer.” — Henry Mancini ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composer Editor Good Got Order
To be a composer, you have to be a die-hard music lover - which I am. — Devi Sri Prasad Copy Share Image
I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
I don't think that because l'm a composer I only have to compose music. — Joe Hisaishi Copy Share Image
To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Being a composer is a little like being a painter. Sometimes you hire a painter because you want a beautiful painting for your wall,… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I don't claim to be a composer, and I realize my approach is pretty dopey in comparison to the true masters of score work.… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Every now and then, as a composer and producer, it's important to write music for yourself. — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
If you're feeling fancy free, come wander through the world with me, and any place we chance to be, will be a rendezvous. Two… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
In 'Charade,' there was a big fight. George Kennedy was playing one of his first big heavy roles; he had a hook for a… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
Bassoon is not an easy instrument to play and to pick it up and play it like a flute or a saxophone is quite… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
I had no idea 'Moon River' would do so well. I was too busy working to think about it. — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
When I play 'Newhart' in concert, it always gets a hand, right from the very beginning. To me, 'Newhart' is a hit. — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
Some scenes cry out for a certain kind of treatment. The kind we're conditioned by years of film-watching to expect. — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
I've done entire scores for I don't know how many films and series. I never kept track; I suppose it's up in the hundreds. — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra. — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
Jazz is capable of doing much more than depicting the dope fiend and the drunk and the slinky gal. In our show there are… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated… — Hanns Eisler Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and wild. He's… — Michael Brecker Copy Share Image
“- Mom, can I tell them there that I'm Romanian? - Sure, why not tell them? - I was thinking that they wouldn't think...… — George Enescu Copy Share Image
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to… — Ernest Gold Copy Share Image
I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people. And I… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer. — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
A mission that comes from the heart to promote these things and to encourage composers to write, then of course they should do it.… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
