Composer Quote by Richard Meale

I was composing before I realised I was a composer. It came more or less naturally. There were a couple of old ladies lived…

— Richard Meale

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

— Benjamin Britten

“You're composing not in relation to the spectacle, but in relation to the drama on the screen.”

— HowardStone

As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.

— Phil Collins

Music is the space between the notes.

— Claude Debussy

Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers,…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I suppose I was affected by raw sounds and timbres more than a lot of other composers. Had I been involved with orchestral composing,…

— Wendy Carlos

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

— Nadia Boulanger

I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down…

— John Zorn

It never occurred to me that there was anything odd about writing my own music, and so I used to just jot down little…

— Richard Meale

Even though, theoretically, being a composer and being a songwriter are the same thing, in my brain, they are completely different. When I am…

— Michael Bacon

I'm the only actor who has done everything, right from anchoring shows to composing and singing songs to theatre to movies.

— Javed Jaffrey