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Being the composer of 'Minecraft' is basically like imagining the distance between earth and moon.
The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.
In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.
When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.
If you just want ten songs to fit somebody else's script, then I'm not really the composer for that.
Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.
Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.
I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.
I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety.
I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!
As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.
Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
My mother, Minuetta Kessler, was a concert pianist and composer who performed at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall.
Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.
John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.
I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day.
You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.
I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.
Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
Any composer should be able to synthesize the primary feelings that the characters are going through in the movie.
The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.
I am probably the only composer in South India who has delivered many superhit songs but was not considered a success.
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.
My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and composer.
Chopin is a great composer who influenced many, many important composers. He was a great innovator, especially in harmony.
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.
Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
Because a composer's soul goes into a film, they should do the entire film, even the background score. If not, then don't do it.
The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.
Beethoven's reputation is based entirely on gossip. The middle Beethoven represents a supreme example of a composer on an ego trip.
I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.
I'd say for a film composer, 'Star Wars' is kind of like the holy grail of film music. It's probably the best film music ever written.
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.