Famous quotes by Composers

"And once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come"

William Bolcom, Composer

"Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute"

Keith Jarrett, Composer

"It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life"

Bruno Walter, Composer

"When we finally came to start work on this, the joy was it was only Joel and I, we didn't have to answer to anybody, and we didn't have to submit a screen play or anything like that. We just wrote it and then made it"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"I've got to find something and if I find something that I like, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent, plus 1.5 per cent National Insurance paid by employees, plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"Corny answer is, of course, is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine, I'm sorry, haven't come here"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing"

Leonard Bernstein, Composer

"When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets"

Keith Jarrett, Composer

"I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart"

Keith Jarrett, Composer

"Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"I said, look, do you think you could bring Gerry through, and they said yeah, absolutely, they thought that. Joel was very keen to cast him. If all my music team were happy, I was happy"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field"

Toru Takemitsu, Composer

"Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world"

Toru Takemitsu, Composer

"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable"

Leonard Bernstein, Composer

"If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?"

Keith Jarrett, Composer

"I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage"

Keith Jarrett, Composer

"I think that music has an endless life"

Anne Dudley, Composer

"Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously"

Anne Dudley, Composer

"I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!"

Morton Feldman, Composer

"No one has the Houdini school of composition"

Morton Feldman, Composer

"I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it"

Morton Feldman, Composer

"I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all"

Morton Feldman, Composer

"You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches"

Anne Dudley, Composer

"We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now"

Anne Dudley, Composer

"Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle"

Anne Dudley, Composer

"I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme"

Anne Dudley, Composer

"Composers are always going back to the past"

Anne Dudley, Composer

"Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures"

Morton Feldman, Composer

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