Good Quote by James Newton Howard

There are artists who delight listeners with their wild and daring individuality; there are others who uncover the written score with reverence. There are…

— Stephen Hough

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 always go back to the original material. I want a good connection as the composer and writer of the score to the director…

— Howard Shore

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

— Judy Holliday

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

— Leo Ornstein

Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the…

— Virgil Thomson

The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with…

— Robert Anderson

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the…

— Ennio Morricone

The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of…

— Edward Albee

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the…

— Ennio Morricone

You've got to be an editor in order to be a good composer.

— Henry Mancini

To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.

— Gustav Mahler