There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear to stop many times before they actually do.
I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.
I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer.
I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color.
Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!
To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.
Each composer has their own language, and I try to meet the challenges, even if at first sight, they appear impossible.
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.
I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition.
Composers are always going back to the past.
Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.
I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.
[Composers] Mark [Shaiman] and Scott [Wittman] are unreal
Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.
Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.
When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I enjoy and am expert at, deliberate thought falls aside and it is all just THERE. I think of the next word no more than the composer thinks of the next note.
It’s really strange, but they speak to me — the notes and the chords. So when I hear other people’s music, I can feel the composer. Whoever created that, I can see in their soul.
When I got out of college I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singer, actor. I just got day jobs and auditioned and took what came and the theater doors were the ones opening the most.