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DAVID DEL TREDICI
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. SIR THOMAS BEECHAM Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
THOMAS BEECHAM
Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to ... A. R. RAHMAN
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake. JONATHAN SWIFT I'd say that most of the music I write includes me as a performer in some way, and this is not neces...
DANIEL TRUEMAN GS This is the first time this has happened that I didn't know how [the soloist] sounded.
JENNIFER HIGDON I try to get the personality of the person involved. I like writing concertos because I can tailor t...
JENNIFER HIGDON I won't start a piece until I meet with the person, hear them play and hear what they like.
JENNIFER HIGDON Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and...
CARLA BLEY
Everyone writes with hand, but very few can write with heart MUNIA KHAN
Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves w... DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU
There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthet... BILL CONTI It's interesting: composers can be very funny ducks.
SIMON RATTLE Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.
JOHN EATON
Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to prote... A.E. SAMAAN
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thou... BRIAN ENO It's hard to ignore Jennifer. She has a good instinct, she has a nose for the products and she is re...
PAUL CHARRON
On marriage to Jennifer Aniston: I'm performing naked cartwheels. I'm very excited. BRAD PITT I have tremendous respect for film composers.
JOHN CORIGLIANO
I'm very grateful to Jennifer Lopez, because I have something to talk about for the last couple ... STEVEN COJOCARU
There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and... BILL CONTI
Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving the... CHARLES BUKOWSKI If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.
GARTH ENNIS I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers requir...
ANTONIO DAMASIO
Our society expects that everyone should learn to write, even though very few become professional wr... MITCHEL RESNICK
I think that live shows are more important for singers than composers, because composers still get a... ARMAAN MALIK
Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient ... DAVID REMNICK
There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a ... TOBIAS WOLFF You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.
DAVID DEL TREDICI
Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves BILL ANDERSON
On the whole, stories don't write themselves. NEIL GAIMAN
For me, my number one Hollywood role model is Jennifer Lopez. BECKY G Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of ...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH They're really looking for themselves right now.
BOB IRVIN We made this very clear last year when the new rule was first touted. The idea of using just a few b...
ALLISON DEMAS There are very few barriers to entry. Anyone with a good idea and knowledge of programming could wri...
MICHAEL OSTERMAN Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them th...
LOUISE TALMA
People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; beca... ROBERT A. SCHUMANN
The statues of archdukes or composers presided with pensive nonchalance. PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also record...
ERIC WHITACRE
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians ... BRIAN GREENE
It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh. DAVID BAILEY Jennifer came in very confident. She pitched extremely well. She knew what she had to do and she did...
LAUREN HOUSTON A few years ago [Redwood] was just OK. Now I see them as very respectful.
MARIO ANAYA We're very excited. We've been in Ohio for a few years now, and we're just starting to expand into s...
MEAGAN LEWANDOWSKI Jennifer is not a criminal.
LYDIA SARTAIN There is a complete and thorough manhunt for the escapee and his wife Jennifer.
AMANDA SLUSS The songs just sing themselves to me. They kind of write themselves. I just stand back and listen.
CINDY WALKER There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few p...
ELIZABETH WARREN
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard ... NEVILLE MARRINER Jennifer Pomeroy knows a lot of inside information - as his wife - about things that have happened a...
ERIC DETERS Composers are not all good conductors.
ANTON SEIDL
The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work an... J. K. ROWLING I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene a...
BOB ODENKIRK
I like to write in the mornings, so I try to protect 9 A.M. - 12 P.M. for me. I can drop our older t... DOUGLAS BRUNT
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their... MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their... MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Not one of them mentioned any of it, ... They're all very thankful where they find themselves right ...
DICK CHENEY Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above ...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET)
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above th... VOLTAIRE I don't think any of the early Romantic composers knew how to write for the piano... The music o...
GLENN GOULD I think Jennifer Lopez is a phenom. And as far as I'm concerned, she's really a very smart b...
RITA MORENO
People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It take... NEIL GAIMAN I am a book reviewer. I write for a glossy magazine called 'SCI FI.' The money is not life-c...
ADAM-TROY CASTRO
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers... ERIC HOFFER
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. ELTON JOHN The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
VICTOR GARBER If you do not have the strength to forgive,
then compel themselves and continue in that, do not...
SANEL ALIć We haven't got the time now, we're very limited so it's very important in the next few days that we'...
GORDON TIETJENS I write very slowly.
CARLA BLEY It's baby steps that make things happen. The car was great. Now we have someone who can hopefully he...
DREW KESSE
In America, at the beginning of talkies, they pulled Fred Astaire from the theaters and put him on t... TONY BENNETT He seems enthusiastic about us as instrumentalists and composers. He likes what we do, so he says he...
AARON PARKS The biggest goal was to just give composers a chance to come together and discuss among themselves i...
CHUCK OWEN Whether one calls oneself conservative or revolutionary, whether one composers in a conventional or ...
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Composers shouldn't think too much it interferes with their plagiarism HOWARD DIETZ I always make it a point to teach them to know what they are singing, its purpose, composers, and hi...
CHARLIE TOOMER There are situations where directors give composers directives just to give them directives Just to ...
DON DAVIS He is expert in classical music. He knew the composers and knew their lives. He read their biographi...
DIANE JACOBOWITZ The majority of the composers in Icebreaker III are not known outside their region.
ELENA DUBINETS One thing [the composers] bring to the show is a sense of not playing down to the audience. The musi...
JEFFREY LESSER It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, emp...
JOSHUA REDMAN I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in ...
MAURICE RAVEL
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DR. ABEJA APUNYO
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. WALTER BAGEHOT
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. WALTER BAGEHOT
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything WALTER BAGEHOT Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people co...
TAYLOR HANSON
Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves. MIKE NORTON
I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the sk... A. R. RAHMAN
If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you&#... STEPHEN SONDHEIM
My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday w... VICTORIA BECKHAM I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustr...
JACK PRELUTSKY
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glo... MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hol...
MICHAEL P NAUGHTON It feels great. They've been playing very well the first few games. I'm just happy to be playing now...
ANTONIO DIMARIA Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.
ELLIOTT CARTER
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