Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sivamani

I know I have experience, having worked with the likes of legendary composers like Ilaiyaraaja. And, I've been long enough with my dear friend A. R. Rahman, and we've collaborated on several musical works. All this gives me confidence.

John Eaton

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.

Shaan

Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors.

George Crumb

An interesting practice in music since the atonal period of the Viennese composers has been the widespread use of a few tiny pitch cells.

Brian Eno

With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.

Douglas Carter Beane

Dietz and Schwartz have sort of fallen by the wayside a little bit, and they are up there with Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. They are the finest of the revue composers - their stuff is so good and so strong.

Robert Morris

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

Christopher Young

Film composers are the most prolific music makers on this planet, and most of us are, like, losing our minds if we're doing five or more movies in a year.

A. R. Rahman

I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.

Stone Gossard

J was open to our style from the get-go. They weren't expecting us to do something that was unnatural for us.

James Johnson

I suspect that most people, on balance, had been expecting a referral,

R. Robinson

It bounced right into me. I wasn't expecting it.

Grant Heslov

'Monuments Men' is a movie... I don't want to say for grown-ups, because some young folks could appreciate it, too. But if you're expecting 'Transformers,' you're going to be disappointed.

Mario DeRose

I think the market is expecting a slight increase and so if they don't do anything, I think you'll see a sell-off. If it's increased more than expected, you might get a little pick-up -- but it's keeping the market a little on edge.

Julie Mattson

I think their pressure did get to us. We weren't expecting it. We had kind of that deer-in-headlights look.

Mike Greene

We thought we were going to have a good team for years to come. We didn't have a lot of old guys then. But we weren't expecting the injuries.

Yvonne Hester

We are expecting to surpass 3,000 permits in this year.

Brian Rolston

I was just sitting here. They'd been making that middle pass all night. I just read it and got a quick shot off. The goalie probably wasn't expecting it.

Whitney M. Young

You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There must be strategies, the researchers, the professionals to carry out the program. That's our role.

Julia Gillard

The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the baddies behind you - hiss, boo and whatever you do, don't vote Labor. This political parody of pantomime is looking and sounding desperate.

Marshall McLuhan

While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.

Nancy Kress

Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.

Peter Tork

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

Len Wiseman

I would love to travel to the future to plot out some things so there's no more guess work.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I like fast plots with things that explode.

William Shakespeare

Rashly, And praised be rashness for it--let us know, Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will

Billy Wilder

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.