Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love.
I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.
I am in the world only for the purpose of composing. Franz Schubert
I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.
There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.
It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.
However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.
Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography.
My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.
I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.
Negative books can be bestsellers, but seldom classics.
I'm a huge fan of classic sci-fi.
I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.
I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.
