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Puccini is my favorite composer.

Kristine Opolais

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Kristine Opolais
Latvian - Musician
Born: November 12, 1979

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.

Dave Brubeck

I felt frustrated by the limitations of rock and the lifestyle of touring around on a bus and playing the same songs over and over. So I went back to school to study music, and one of the things I got into was the Italian opera composer Puccini.

Rivers Cuomo

If somebody says, 'Well, what are your favorite composers?' really, what they are saying is, 'What are your favorite composers apart from Bach?' Because obviously, Bach is your favorite composer if you are involved in music at all.

Max Richter

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

Ned Rorem

'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly.

Robert Gottlieb

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

Wagner is the Puccini of music.

J. B. Morton

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

Maurice Jarre

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

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

Alexandre Desplat

Elvis Presley and Puccini shall return.

Elvis Costello

Puccini - silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled.

H. L. Mencken

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 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

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