Based Quote by Howard Shore

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

I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety.

— Andris Nelsons

I've been a full-time composer for many years, and I'm still learning all the time. There is always more than one musical "solution" to…

— John Keltonic

Any composer should be able to synthesize the primary feelings that the characters are going through in the movie.

— James Newton Howard

I started out being quite an eclectic composer, not quite sure where to fit in. I tried my hand a bit at everything, except…

— C418

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

— David Del Tredici

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

— Gavin Bryars

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

When I'm writing film music, I feel like I'm more a filmmaker than a composer. It's more about what the film needs. I'm basically…

— Johann Johannsson

As a composer, I only give directors tunes I'm happy with.

— Vijay Antony

A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express…

— Howard Shore

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