"I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously……" — Warren Zevon
"I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about."
More Composer Quotes
- The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. — Ansel Adams
- To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted… — Dirk Benedict
- Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. — Hector Berlioz
- I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. — Leonard Bernstein
- Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven… — Johannes Brahms
- I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it. — Sarah Brightman
- I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger… — Sarah Brightman
- The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is… — Benjamin Britten
- When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes… — Dave Brubeck
- Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. — Pablo Casals
- I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you… — Tori Amos
- That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything -… — David Amram