Awe Quote by Mark Helprin

“It was clear that the composer no longer consoled himself with the thought that music could express everything and did not require verbal commentary.”

— Solomon Volkov

What is so beautiful about a composer and a lyricist is that their job is to push a story along and not halt it.

— Keala Settle

“Through him I could play the music I heard in my soul. I was the violin, he was the bow.”

— S. Jae-Jones

“at the start of our together you were the prelude to a vast orchestration. at the end of it all you will have been…

— mary anne radmacher

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he…

— Guy Clark

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

If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order.

— Jascha Heifetz

The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly,…

— Anonymous

“Evening Concert, Sainte-Chapelle" The celebrated windows flamed with light directly pouring north across the Seine; we rustled into place. Then violins vaunting Vivaldi's strident…

— John Updike

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

It's really been enlightening for me to work with composers because I used to think that everything in the music was exactly what the…

— Hilary Hahn

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

— Ned Rorem