Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton Seidl

Composers are not all good conductors.

Anne Dudley

I think the thing about being a film composer is that you have to be pretty eclectic-be able to turn your hand to all sorts of different styles and genres and be familiar with the latest rhythms and the range of an obscure instrument.

We have something by every famous composer and a mother lode of American music.

Howard Shore

A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express different storytelling ideas.

Richard Rodgers

If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.

Robert Moog

When I opened the T-burg shop, I thought I was going into the electronic kit business, ... Then I met a composer who wanted to make electronic music on tape. We got together just for fun.

Graeme Murphy

Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography.

David Del Tredici

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

Penn Jillette

Working in television, you really need a composer who can work in many styles especially when you're working in comedy. Stockdale can do anything.

I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on.

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

Arthur Honegger

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead

Daniel Handler

Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!

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.

Tim Rice

To find a new British composer who is really good is rare.

Stephen Sondheim

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.

Kelly Ryan

Certainly, he was very, very well-respected as a composer for his mastery of every genre. That is one thing that is unique about Mozart.

Pablo Casals

Let us not forget that the greatest composers where also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

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.

Mozart was one of those composers who was successful in all genres, and we wanted to show the diversity of his music.

Bruce Kovner

It has been great fun to find these manuscripts and pull them together into this collection. I trust that what we are doing at the school will make it possible for Juilliard students and scholars to delve into the compositional processes of these great composers and share them with the rest of the world.

Marc Ribot

It's not surprising that a composer learns in detail an instrument. That's not surprising. That should be the first thing a composer does.

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.

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.

Patrick Doyle

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

Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

Jean Cocteau

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.

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

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.

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.

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.