Cages Quote by Philip Glass

It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers…

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman

I was part of the sort of avant guard tradition of John Cage and music concrete and pushing back the boundaries of avant garde…

— Anne Dudley

There was this kind of dictatorship of the Darmstadt school, composers like Boulez and Stockhausen, who were very strict and orthodox. They would not…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I grew up mostly in Champaign, Illinois. My dad was at the University of East Illinois, so I was always around the music. One…

— Stuart Hamm

When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.

— Alexandre Desplat

I had been exposed to classical music my whole life; even before I was born.

— Jason Becker

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

— Brian May

The only music I've ever written was for a film called Frank, and the idea was that it was the worst music in the…

— Domhnall Gleeson

That was my first love growing up - classical orchestral music, especially Impressionism.

— Butch Trucks

Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was…

— Terry Riley

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

— Pepe Romero

[Frank] Sinatra, to everyone, even Tony Bennett, was such a huge influence because he had mastered not only music, but film and radio.

— Robert Davi