Famous quotes by Composers

"Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"I think being a little nuts is helpful"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"I just love the sheer mess of New York"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter?"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"I don't find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"I like business and personal life to be distinct"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"All my music is very simple, in that melody is usually clearly stated"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again!"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"Even if people censure me, they should do so, hat in hand"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"With the coming of spring, I am calm again"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"If you think you're boring your audience, go slower, not faster"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"Behind me, the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable"

Carter Burwell, Composer

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