Beautiful Quote by Kurt Masur

I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.

— Gavin Bryars

I usually don't share the music with the musicians until right before they have to record their parts, because I hate discussing it and…

— Omar Rodriguez-Lopez

Very often, when you're listening to a piece for the first time, you're listening through a model of other pieces that you know. At…

— Paul Lansky

You never know what you're going to learn from which pieces and which composers and colleagues are going to influence that thing you think…

— Hilary Hahn

With a piece of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven, on first listening I'm referencing it with other pieces by them that I…

— Paul Lansky

it's important as a composer to sit in silence and imagine these complex musical worlds in your head, but it's also a wonderful experience…

— Tod Machover

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

— Placido Domingo

Normally when you write for an orchestra, you think about melody and harmony and countermelody.

— Ludwig Goransson

Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just…

— Van Morrison

If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.

— Leila Josefowicz

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper…

— David Ogden Stiers