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.
I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.
In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.
I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.
I've seen composers work on 30 films at one go. So, eight or even 10 albums in a year is no big deal.
All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
DEAFNESS DOESN'T PREVENT COMPOSERS HEARING THE MUSIC. IT PREVENTS THEM HEARING THE DISTRACTIONS.
I always recommend to any player to always compose their own music. It's one of the best things you can do to find a road to your own style.
I’ll probably paint on this piano after I compose, for that will inspire me to make more awesome works.
International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.
Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.
Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.
I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer.
I came across a lot of young composers who have got passion but lack experience. I want to help them out.
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination of a great book and a great filmmaker, what could be better for the composer?
