A Quote by William P. Perry

Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.

William P. Perry

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William P. Perry
Born: 1930

Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Châteaubriand and vegetables.

Arthur Rubinstein

Composing a melody or a western song is easier than composing a commercial number.

Mani Sharma

When I'm by myself - composing or writing film scores - it's very lonely. I'm just sitting by myself in the studio.

Ludwig Goransson

I always tend to think that composing is not playing an instrument, composing is having something in your head that's steaming and it has to go out. It has to become sounds and be written. It's an emotion that you can't repress.

Alexandre Desplat

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

Lukas Foss

I used to do most of my composing at a little table in a cafe. Composing for 52 instruments, I had to figure out how to accommodate myself to the small table.

Krzysztof Penderecki

I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.

Samuel Barber

When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand. In the hands of a professional pianist, such a piano can bury the strings and the winds and hold its own against the brass. But Mozart wasn't composing for a nine-foot-long, thousand-pound piano; he was composing for a five-and-a-half-foot-long, hundred-and-fifty-pound piano built from balsa wood and dental floss.

Robert Greenberg

All of a sudden it hit me - if there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can't there be figures of motion?

Len Lye

Isn't composing music akin to film direction?

Ilaiyaraaja

The process of composing the film score for each movie is completely different. They all have their own personality and their own completely different life, but there's never been a formula. Each time, it's a new thing.

Trevor Rabin

I could create music that sounded as strange as any electronic music, because you see, my opinion about electronic music is that the real composer is the guy who invented the instrument. Pressing buttons is not composing. Composing is about creating something.

Glenn Branca

There's a thing about film composing and conducting in my family.

David Newman

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

Alex North

While the concert is instant communication with the audience, composing is a creative process where a song comes up out of nowhere and then transmits happiness to many, translates into money, fame, or whatever.

Shankar Mahadevan

I'm also always thinking about the score as a recording, as opposed to a performance that can be recreated in a live environment. Some of what I write could of course be played in a concert hall, but for the needs of a film I don't consider that.

Geoff Zanelli

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