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You're creating a score that has to have an emotional and story logic to it. You want a dramatic arc. You want all the…

— Alan Menken

Normally, for a musical, the first step with my collaborators is to figure out the story and the outline and really be clear about…

— Stephen Schwartz

I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.

— Alan Menken

I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more…

— John Zorn

That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So…

— John Zorn

All of the musical projects that I am involved with are near and dear to my heart and allow me in a small way…

— Nathan East

My own goals center around writing the best music that I can, and only I can determine whether or not I've succeeded in accomplishing…

— Michael Hersch

Part of what I enjoy about writing classical music is communicating through the score and collaborating with such amazing musicians.

— Bryce Dessner

It's hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like building something…

— Thomas Mars

Well my own impression of my musical pieces is that no matter how long I've been at it, there's not much improvement. So that's…

— Nobuo Uematsu

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer…

— Ben Harper

With every musical project, I ended up feeling more enriched by the experience.

— Ludovico Einaudi