Composer Quote by Steven Price Download Open image “A lot of composers I know hate temp scores because people get attached to them.” — Steven Price ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composer Hate Knows People Score
Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t. — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that… — Jerome Kern Copy Share Image
A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one… — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
I've always said there aren't great composers- there are great songs. — Vicente Fernandez Copy Share Image
The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America. — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
I think the reason composers aren't valued is because many act as servants rather than music directors. Instead of taking a stand based on… — M. Jayachandran Copy Share Image
I sort of enjoy being able to hear what other composers are doing and how they might score something differently than me. I enjoy… — Marco Beltrami Copy Share Image
With the great people that you work with, it's that they're never giving up and they're never thinking something's finished until they've really, really… — Steven Price Copy Share Image
With a lot of action scores, you're competing with a lot of noise. Say there's a big explosion: the music would conventionally have a… — Steven Price Copy Share Image
I think after everything in the whole process of filmmaking, temp scores are great if you use them for what they're good for, if… — Steven Price Copy Share Image
No one's being precious about their music. They want the film to be great. And that was the huge lesson for me along the… — Steven Price Copy Share Image
My house was full of music. My main memories are of the record player at home: it was all Beatles and Rolling Stones, and… — Steven Price Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing with the inspiration thing. There's always loads of music around that I absolutely love and films going back to when… — Steven Price Copy Share Image
I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that. — Steven Price Copy Share Image
Every one of us has a response of some kind to music, so I don't think it's fair to ever judge what is proper… — Steven Price Copy Share Image
I studied music all the way through college, but as soon as I graduated from university, I got straight into London and got straight… — Steven Price Copy Share Image
I've been able to have broad kind of education and all sorts of different music and a lot of kind of films and also… — Steven Price Copy Share Image
The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the… — Steven Price Copy Share Image
A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be. — Steven Price Copy Share Image
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated… — Hanns Eisler Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and wild. He's… — Michael Brecker Copy Share Image
“- Mom, can I tell them there that I'm Romanian? - Sure, why not tell them? - I was thinking that they wouldn't think... I'm bragging." (Dialogue with his mother before leaving for Vienna)” — George Enescu Copy Share
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to sing. No one would cast a dancing part with someone who cannot dance sufficiently to come up to professional standards. The same is true of acting. But when it comes to singing, more often than not… — Ernest Gold Copy Share
I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people. And I fall into that too! I learned that in graduate school. You just talk about your music in a specific way, and that separates people from you. But some composers like that. Schoenberg liked that. He wanted… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share
The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer. — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
A mission that comes from the heart to promote these things and to encourage composers to write, then of course they should do it.… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
