A Quote by Ernest Newman

A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

Ernest Newman

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Ernest Newman
English - Critic
November 30, 1868 - July 7, 1959

To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-actor because you're working with the actors on screen.

Howard Shore

If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

Ned Rorem

I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.

John Corigliano

When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I've discovered that when I talk slowly, people listen. They think I'm going to say something important!

Kirk Douglas

Remember from this very moment: always choose that which is good for you and good for others. Choose creativity. Become a blessing to existence, because that is the only way that we can persuade God to become a blessing to us. That's the only true prayer: becoming a blessing to everyone - to people, to animals, to trees, to life in all its forms. If one remains consciously alert, slowly slowly the art is learned; slowly slowly it becomes just natural.

Rajneesh

Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.

Lewis Buzbee

I'm not a script composer. I'm a film composer and my brain is excited by images and moving elements.

Alexandre Desplat

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.

Ornette Coleman

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'

Ornette Coleman

One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.

Itzhak Perlman

One must practice slowly, then more slowly, and finally slowly.

Camille Saint-Saens

It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.

Daniel Barenboim

I always wanted to be a composer, and I sort of went in to NYU as pre-med because I just thought, 'Well... who actually becomes a composer?'

Alan Menken

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

John Philip Sousa

It's the vision of the composer that we have to determine, and not the absolute mathematical adherence of the score. In my experience, there have been occasions where I feel that a composer has not notated something as they meant to have it represented.

Marc-Andre Hamelin

I am a passionate, committed composer, and the guy I used to write musicals with, once he was able to ditch me and get a better composer, actually won the Tony.

Eric Garcetti

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