Audience Quote by John Eaton

A lot of composers I know hate temp scores because people get attached to them.

— Steven Price

If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out…

— Peter Maxwell Davies

Television executives only commission something that somebody else has already commissioned that's doing well on another station - they're afraid of expecting an audience…

— Mariella Frostrup

There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a…

— Robert Wyatt

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one…

— Aphex Twin

Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.

— John Eaton

The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take…

— A. R. Rahman

There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's…

— Evelyn Glennie

Men have been in the forefront of music for centuries, and they have written glorious music, loved and appreciated by many. In some ways,…

— Barbara Harbach

As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach. I love Paganini, too, the Italian composer…

— Matt Schulze

As improvisers, we're acting as composers in front of people.

— Kurt Elling

I always loved the motion picture scores and the great film composers like Elmer Bernstein.

— Frank Sinatra Jr