It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.
Michael Bolton

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.
Carter Burwell

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
Carlisle Floyd

My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
Gianni Versace

My main concern is if this composer has been made aware of the fact that I've come clean in all of my cases. I killed in pure hate, robbing along the way. So if this person hasn't, then I'd sure appreciate it if someone would inform him or her of it.
Aileen Wuornos

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
Ornette Coleman

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments.
Thomas Harrison

Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.
Anton Rubinstein

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.
John Philip Sousa

Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there.
Kurt Masur

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.
Danny Elfman

Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer.
Richard Ernst

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.
Morton Gould

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.
David Amram

That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.
John Zorn

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.
Leo Ornstein

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
Gustav Mahler

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
Ernest Newman

The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.
Claudio Monteverdi

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
Ansel Adams