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The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing.
I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.
Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.
There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.
Our job as composers becomes easy when directors have a good knowledge of music and know exactly what they want.
Two pieces of advice for young composers: Go away during technical rehearsals. And do not have a back operation.
I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
I admire Turgenev, Camus, Proust and Shakespeare, but I've also learnt a lot about writing from composers and artists.
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
Tom Kitt aside - he's in his own category with me, of course - Stephen Sondheim is one of my all-time favorite composers.
If we want to share the message of the composers, to give good things back to humanity, we have to dig deep while we can.
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
Some composers end up writing for the guitar as they would write piano music or, more often, harp music. It isn't the same.
A violin is tuned to a fifth. But a guitar is tuned to a fourth with a one-third middle. It is very perplexing to composers.
All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.
The composers know what they want from you. So as a vocalist you have got to trust them and surrender yourself to their vision.
Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
I think the work process' - composers do not get enough time to make a good song. That's the one thing which needs to be changed.
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
It is the responsibility of music composers to add some classical music elements into their songs to make the music genre popular.
I can say, with a little arrogance, that I could be an actor, a cameraman, a writer, but composers are the most mysterious people.
I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world.
I got my first break in 'Bhootnath,' solely on my credit, and went on to sing for around 20 films for all the leading music composers.
What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.
Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.
You know, my career hasn't exactly been the sort of thing that usually happens to film composers, but I sure am glad it happened to me.
I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.
Many great composers have died in poverty. I have not faced hardships, like having to struggle for food, thanks to reasonable producers.
In the beginning, many composers didn't have confidence in me. It's not their fault. It only comes after you've delivered your first hit.
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.
For years, my favorite composers had been Monteverdi and Bach. Then I began to rediscover the 19th century, see it from another perspective.
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
I sort of enjoy being able to hear what other composers are doing and how they might score something differently than me. I enjoy that part.
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
I think that live shows are more important for singers than composers, because composers still get a lot of recognition as compared to a singer.
The team at ASCAP is a genuine family, and I am proud to be part of an organization that is home to so many legendary songwriters and composers.
I am compared to other classical musicians, but most of them perform songs from other people, and most of those composers belong to another era.
I would really love to do the score for movies. Pick the music and work with composers. I don't know if I'd be any good at it, but I love music.
Composers, artists, actors, singers - all of them, I think, unconsciously learn from others. I'm sure it's not conscious, but they can't help it.
A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.
It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.
You never know what you're going to learn from which pieces and which composers and colleagues are going to influence that thing you think you know.
When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.
Unfortunately, we have very few female composers in our country, but Sneha Khanwalkar, Alokananda Dasgupta, and Jasleen Royal are forces to reckon with.
As a musician myself, I wouldn't be confident if I received some other composers' song, because I choose to express myself through the music that I make.
Film composers are the most prolific music makers on this planet, and most of us are, like, losing our minds if we're doing five or more movies in a year.