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| Ansel Adams |
The negative is comparable to...
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| Ansel Adams |
The negative is the equivalent...
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| David Amram |
That is the way a great...
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| Milton Babbitt |
I dare suggest that the...
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| Richard H. Baker |
It is my hope that during...
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| Samuel Barber |
I was meant to be a...
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| Cecilia Bartoli |
It's nice to have a great...
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| Cecilia Bartoli |
I would still love to do...
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| Cecilia Bartoli |
We consider Monteverdi the first...
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| Les Baxter |
I'm not an intellectual composer...
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| Dirk Benedict |
To me, all writing is like...
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| Hector Berlioz |
Every composer knows the anguish...
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| Leonard Bernstein |
I'm not interested in having...
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| Harrison Birtwistle |
The thing about influence is...
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| Harrison Birtwistle |
I'm not an architectural composer...
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| Michael Bolton |
It's understanding the intention of...
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| Alfred Brendel |
If I belong to a tradition...
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| Benjamin Britten |
The old idea of a composer...
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| Gavin Bryars |
I am writing something which I...
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| Carter Burwell |
John Barry was the first film...
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| Elliott Carter |
In any case, Ives encouraged...
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| Elliott Carter |
Aaron Copland was a man that...
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| Ornette Coleman |
I've had those people very...
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| Ornette Coleman |
Originally, I wanted to be a...
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| John Corigliano |
I'm glad I won it because...
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| John Corigliano |
You become a great composer...
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| John Corigliano |
I think it's good for the...
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| John Corigliano |
I find respect for a mediocre...
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| Elvis Costello |
You have to face the fact...
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| Peter M. Davies |
If you aim at anything lower...
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| Alexander Jackson Davis |
I am but an architectural...
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| Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau |
Which is why, in my lieder...
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| Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau |
If you only do little clusters...
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| Thomas Dolby |
At the same time, one of...
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| John Eaton |
Well, let me, first of all...
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| John Eaton |
I think the composer and...
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| Hanns Eisler |
A composer knows that music is...
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| Danny Elfman |
I really liked doing a number...
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| Danny Elfman |
I'm trying to interpret the...
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| Danny Elfman |
So, it becomes an exercise in...
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| Richard Ernst |
Soon, I knew that I would...
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| Lion Feuchtwanger |
Asking the author of historical...
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| Carlisle Floyd |
Like any other composer of...
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| Fred Frith |
I think that one of the...
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| Cornelia Funke |
I like a composer called Henry...
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| Gordon Getty |
When my opera Plump Jack was...
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| Gordon Getty |
I just have to take my...
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| Mikhail Glinka |
A nation creates music - the...
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| Morton Gould |
That is basically me, and...
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| Morton Gould |
It's not a special taste. An...
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| Ayumi Hamasaki |
It's hard to decide how to...
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| Thomas Harrison |
Other, far fewer, directors are...
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| Jascha Heifetz |
I occasionally play works by...
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| Arthur Honegger |
The public doesn't want new...
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| Arthur Honegger |
There is no doubt that the...
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| Marilyn Horne |
Americans can pretty much sing...
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| Jacques Ibert |
I dream of a collaboration...
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| Charles Ives |
If a composer has a nice...
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| Charles Ives |
It is conceivable that what is...
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| Maurice Jarre |
With Hitchcock I had little...
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| Charles Kettering |
The opportunities of man are...
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| Gyorgy Legeti |
I continued to study Math and...
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| Gyorgy Legeti |
I think a composer is always...
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| Gustav Mahler |
If a composer could say what...
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| Gustav Mahler |
I also had a brother who...
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| Gustav Mahler |
The further the music develops...
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| Gustav Mahler |
To judge a composer's work...
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| Kurt Masur |
Since the composer has said...
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| Gian Carlo Menotti |
Any subject is good for opera...
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| Claudio Monteverdi |
The modern composer builds upon...
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| Giorgio Moroder |
I am not so complicated or...
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| Giorgio Moroder |
I am not so complicated or...
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| Graeme Murphy |
Yes, Carl Vine stuck around...
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| Ernest Newman |
The great composer does not...
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| Ivor Novello |
I began my career with...
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| Leo Ornstein |
Today each composer is not...
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| Leo Ornstein |
The difference between the student...
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| Leo Ornstein |
It doesn't necessarily mean at...
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| Robert Patterson |
I am a composer, horn player...
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| Gioachino Rossini |
Wagner is a composer who has...
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| Anton Rubinstein |
Pianists call me a composer...
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| Esa-Pekka Salonen |
I feel very free and very...
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| Alfred Schnittke |
Do you know that my very...
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| Franz Schubert |
Why should the composer be...
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| Gunther Schuller |
Because I have sixty years of...
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| Kate Smith |
Intelligent analysis of the composer's...
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| Kate Smith |
I shall always respect the...
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| John Philip Sousa |
Any composer who is gloriously...
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| John Philip Sousa |
Remember always that the composer's...
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| Levi Strauss |
If the composer withholds more...
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| Richard Strauss |
I may not be a first...
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| Igor Stravinsky |
The real composer thinks about...
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| Igor Stravinsky |
I have learned throughout my...
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| Igor Stravinsky |
A good composer does not...
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| Toru Takemitsu |
I probably belong to a type...
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| James Tenney |
I've come up with another...
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| David Del Tredici |
I've always been a composer...
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| Gianni Versace |
My dream was always to be...
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| Aileen Wuornos |
My main concern is if this...
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| Frank Zappa |
A composer is a guy who...
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| John Zorn |
That was my challenge as a...
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