More Quote by Michael Giacchino

I feel like I'll be writing World War 2 music the rest of my life.

— Michael Giacchino

I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.

— Mitch Leigh

When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches for the…

— Sergei Prokofiev

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that…

— Nina Simone

I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality songs -…

— Tony Bennett

Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.

— Bill Callahan

I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

— Samuel Barber

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished,…

— A. A. Gill

Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.

— Colin Meloy

A lot of songwriters have written about soldiers and war, but very few have written with them.

— Mary Gauthier

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band…

— John Philip Sousa

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more…

— Iris DeMent