Famous quotes by Composers

"And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God, this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned"

Toru Takemitsu, Composer

"I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it"

Keith Jarrett, Composer

"You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today"

Aaron Copland, Composer

"If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong"

Aaron Copland, Composer

"There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do"

William Bolcom, Composer

"The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others"

Morton Feldman, Composer

"Well, the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan, is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is, that younger people haven't come in, and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers, and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"I think that the wonderful advantage we have in the film of being able to cast a girl as young as Emmy, and which we couldn't do in the theatre, of course, because no girl of 16 or 17 could sing 8 shows a week, couldn't sing two"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"I guess we've had a very close relationship, because I don't pretend to know about cinema, and I think I do know a bit about theatre, but he does, he respected that, and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't"

Anne Dudley, Composer

"Well, we'd just seen Gerry. I think he wanted somebody who had that authority and was handsome. The thing is, he's a big hunk, isn't he? All I can say, if you look at his chat line, or the Phantom website, it's quite worrying. Because the girls really seem to love him"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"We felt we had to know something of his back story. I don't think people in the cinema would just accept that he's there. I think we had to learn how he (got there)"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life"

Toru Takemitsu, Composer

"To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time"

Leonard Bernstein, Composer

"Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors"

Leonard Bernstein, Composer

"Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it"

Keith Jarrett, Composer

"I would find myself, not necessarily always assigning these little bits of music for here or there, but all of a sudden something would fall into place and it would be exactly that"

William Bolcom, Composer

"A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future"

Leonard Bernstein, Composer

"Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved"

Anne Dudley, Composer

"I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance"

Anne Dudley, Composer

"I think back at the time, if it had been 1988, I would have thought Michael and Sarah probably would have been cast, but I don't think, I think it's much better that the girl is younger and if Sarah would have been 26 or 27 then"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"Because her voice is, it's like the muscles, and it develops all the time. That was the fantastic thing for us"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world"

Leonard Bernstein, Composer

"We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage"

Keith Jarrett, Composer

"The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness, I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness"

Aaron Copland, Composer

"I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer"

Leonard Bernstein, Composer

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