Composer Quotes
In this movie, 'Jigarthanda,' audience can feel it as English movie because this BGM is totally different from Indian background score.
Arjun Janya
Indian film score composer
I play outside the pocket if I need to.
Daniel Jones
Welsh composer of classical music
There have been several movies that I've done over the years that have got a bad shake - 'Speed Racer' was one of them. I loved that movie, and the fact it got such a bad reception was disheartening.
Michael Giacchino
American composer
What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
Carlisle Floyd
American composer
Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
Oscar Levant
American pianist
When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.
Gavin Bryars
English composer
Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.
Hanns Eisler
German-Austrian composer
I like composing music, but I love being with my family.
Ennio Morricone
Italian composer
As a pop musician, as someone who makes songs, the best ideas are the simplest. They come, and that's the lightning bolt moment.
Bryce Dessner
American composer
Times are such that poetry has been slowly drifting away from our songs and the language of conversation is used a lot more as lyrics. I believe such attempts create mundane songs, and they hardly stand the test of time.
M. Jayachandran
composer, singer, and musician.
Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films.
Carter Burwell
American film composer.
In rock music, you have a big success before you turn 30, then there is sort of a decay. Then there is the reunion, and everyone is waiting to hear what you were doing when you were 20, and nobody cares what you are doing at 50 or 60. But the more I continue, the more I produce, the more I play every year in bigger places.
Ludovico Einaudi
Italian pianist
The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.
Pierre Schaeffer
French composer
The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.
Fritz Kreisler
Austrian-American Violinist
Bassoon is not an easy instrument to play and to pick it up and play it like a flute or a saxophone is quite an accomplishment.
Henry Mancini
American composer
When I wake up, if I can't figure something out during the daytime and then wake up at 4 A.M., it's there immediately. I don't know if it's the subconscious mind working, but it just happens.
Leslie Bricusse
British composer
Even when I was studying piano, I always preferred to play around with my own improvisations rather than do my studies. So I've always been interested in writing music from a very early age.
Johann Johannsson
Icelandic composer
Part of what I enjoy about writing classical music is communicating through the score and collaborating with such amazing musicians.
Bryce Dessner
American composer
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
Igor Stravinsky
Composer
Broadway is intimidating. Don't think it's not.
Henry Mancini
American composer
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