Famous quotes by Composers

"By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique, one does not arrive at precision"

Bruno Walter, Composer

"It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"I don't know anyone who would be exclusively working on game music, per se"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are somewhat more reserved than Americans, so I'm jealous"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"I believe that there are many interesting projects that are potentially possible for me, other than game music, and therefore in my mind there are several things that are being contemplated"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"I always begin to compose the melody first"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"However, in countries outside of Japan, I think game music is still a potential growth market that has not yet developed to the extent that we are seeing in Japan"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"For over ten years or so, game music has developed into a very large market"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"And as far as the Disney Concert Hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"However, now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone, and in terms of sound effects, I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list for the LA concert"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"So I don't really have a clear plan, in terms of music, as to where I want to head in the future"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good"

Oscar Levant, Composer

"Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I"

Oscar Levant, Composer

"I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin"

Oscar Levant, Composer

"Art is the most beautiful of all lies"

Claude Debussy, Composer

"Money may kindle, but it cannot, by itself and for very long, burn"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

"The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

"Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps, and 10 percent playing out of tune"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones"

John Cage, Composer

"Man is nature's sole mistake"

William Gilbert, Composer

"If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance"

William Gilbert, Composer

"Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control"

Terry Riley, Composer

"It seems like we are moving towards something, some kind of point, and it is probably going to be an important point in our development or dissolution. That is what everybody seems to be thinking"

Terry Riley, Composer

"I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact, technology wasn't very good, no matter how much money you had"

Terry Riley, Composer

"Throughout the evening, I would be recording these long saxophone delays, and about four hours into the concert, if I wanted to take a break, I would just play back the saxophone"

Terry Riley, Composer

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