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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.
When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.
I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.
Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.
America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.
There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for the number one spot for a big or medium film.
The people of your century no longer require the service of composers. A composer is as useful to a person in a jogging suit as a dinsoaur turd in the middle of his runway.
You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.
Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.
In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on paper.
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.
Having an opportunity to sit down with Directors, Actors, Musicians, Writers and Composers to talk about their relationship with music, both professionally and personally is my idea of heaven.
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer have anything to say and take to performing instead of stating.
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
It's nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector's item.
There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear to stop many times before they actually do.
It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.
I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world.
Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in.
I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.
Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.
The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.
It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
My father Apresh Lahiri and mother Bansari Lahiri were great composers of their time.
Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
A violin is tuned to a fifth. But a guitar is tuned to a fourth with a one-third middle. It is very perplexing to composers.
I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.
When I was offered to sing 'Tere Bina' in 'Guru' by A. R. Rahman sir, it was a surreal experience. The song clicked, and many composers took notice of me and my work then.
I feel blessed and lucky that some of the film industry's most magical and iconic songs where legendary composers and singers have collaborated have been filmed on me.
I think we have a lot in common with classical composers of the 19th century, although I'm not claiming to have their intelligence. They wanted to create a musical explosion, to blow the crowd away.
I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.
Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.
Fortunately, I started very young, so I read music very well. And my favorite composers to play are Brahms and Mozart.
Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.
I've always said there aren't great composers- there are great songs.
As a musician myself, I wouldn't be confident if I received some other composers' song, because I choose to express myself through the music that I make.
God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us to search our souls for the meaning of the mysteries described in ancient books.
Some composers end up writing for the guitar as they would write piano music or, more often, harp music. It isn't the same.
When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.
I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.
Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and physically
I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality songs - the best popular music ever composed.
The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
At school, I wrote in the style of the Dutch composers. After I graduated, a new style set in.
Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
Usually composers need a reason to write. I need a deadline.
In a time when directors did not fear composers with a strong voice, Morricone wrote scores like operas or symphonies, with passion, scope, bravura and intelligence.
In Germany, people feel like they own classical music, that it is somehow theirs. Over there, everyone still learns to play, and the great composers don't seem alien.
Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.
When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song
I think TV composers don't get enough credit. I really think it is one of the hardest jobs.
I think all of The Beatles were from an era when certainly playing was important to them, and they were cutting edge. But for all time, they're master composers.
There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.
I would say, generally speaking, though it is not always the case, comedy is probably the least gratifying for most composers because it is more specific about what the music needs to do.
