Famous Quotes & Sayings

The world in which we live is composed of many objects...

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.

Bill Viola

When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.

Andrea Hirata

One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.

Yngwie Malmsteen

This was a huge, huge undertaking. I composed this concerto from the ground up. It took about two years total to compose, but there were interruptions when I was touring and making rock albums,

Helen Garner

I just... my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my mother was always shouting, 'Go outside!' But she shouted it at all of us. I think I was just kind of... rather an introverted child, probably.

Gian Carlo Menotti

My advice to composers is, 'Try to reach 90, and everyone will love you.'

Mitch Leigh

To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

Patrick Doyle

Sometimes Ive listened to film scores and felt, 'Did the composer phone that in?'

O. Henry

Seems like he is pretty composed for how young he is.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A society can be no better than the men and women who compose it.

They play like seasoned vets. They are so composed and confident. All three are competitors. They hate to lose at anything they do.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

Jean Cocteau

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.

I am pleased with the team's performance. They played very well and continue to show improvement. We just need to be more composed when we're under offensive pressure in the latter part of the game, but that will come when we get more experience.

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

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations.

Eugene Ormandy

Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it soft.

This show will make you laugh, it will make you cry and will leave no question in your mind as to why Puccini is hailed as one of the greatest opera composers of all time.

Jessye Norman

I sing in languages that I speak. So when I'm singing a Schubert song, I know precisely what every word means and, you know, when it was composed and who was the poet and all of that and whether Strauss or Wagner or French Belioz, Duparc or Debussy or whatever.

I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style.

We just tried to stay composed ourselves. We knew if we could get them frustrated, it would be to our benefit. We knew they go from the guards into the post.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

A. R. Rahman

I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.

A. R. Rahman

Sometimes, a remix is good because it reaches a whole new generation. But when it gets too much, it's irritating. Also, the original composer needs to be credited properly.

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.

We score a lot but I think we pass real well too. I think we are a very composed team, and relaxed on the ball.

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.

Shaan

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

Nobuo Uematsu

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

Sonu Nigam

I feel a composer should not crave to sing songs because songs itself decides its voice. The films where I have given music, I have kept my option for the last. I like to make music and not necessarily singing all the songs.

Joshua Bell

In a way, the highest praise you could give to a composer like Bach was to take and make your own arrangement; it was sort of an homage to that composer and to his work, so it wasn't considered sacrilegious to do something like that.