Famous quotes by Composers

"It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge"

John Zorn, Composer

"Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like"

John Zorn, Composer

"That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y'know, aware of. That is what Naked City is certainly about"

John Zorn, Composer

"I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together"

John Zorn, Composer

"For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing"

John Zorn, Composer

"And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage"

John Zorn, Composer

"My masters are strange folk, with very little care for music in them"

Johannes Sebastian Bach, Composer

"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well"

Johannes Sebastian Bach, Composer

"The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star, but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"I also had a brother who was like me, a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed"

Gian Carlo Menotti, Composer

"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out"

Gian Carlo Menotti, Composer

"If a composer could say what he had to say in words, he would not bother trying to say it in music"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul"

Johannes Sebastian Bach, Composer

"Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears"

Gian Carlo Menotti, Composer

"Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"I write music to please myself. Hopefully, the director's enjoying it too"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously"

Carter Burwell, Composer

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