I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
Michael Caine
DayMeetMinersCoalComposers
Composers are always going back to the past.
Anne Dudley
PastBackAlwaysGoingComposers
Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
TodayKnowHumanManyComposers
Sincere composers believe in God.
John Philip Sousa
GodBelieveSincereComposers
Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors.
Shaan
SongsMakingComposersDirectors
I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.
David Del Tredici
WritingSmallLikeBeganComposers
It's interesting: composers can be very funny ducks.
Simon Rattle
FunnyInterestingDucksComposers
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
Thomas Beecham
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Few of us boggle - though we should - at the fact that Louis Armstrong sang and played trumpet with similar panache, or that Leonard Bernstein and Benjamin Britten were equally adept as composers, conductors and pianists.
Terry Teachout
TrumpetUsFactShouldComposers
It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.
Jason Bateman
ProductionCostumeExcitingComposers
I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
Ken Burns
MusicResearchFactsWayComposers
Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.
James Cook
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The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.
Brian Ferneyhough
OppositionWhomRulingComposers
As improvisers, we're acting as composers in front of people.
Kurt Elling
PeopleActingFrontComposers
Brahms is one of my all-time favorite composers.
Itzhak Perlman
FavoriteComposersAll-Time
Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.
John Eaton
BestWellComposersVeryWritten
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
OverDialogueArgueComposersOften
In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.
Hoagy Carmichael
RainbowHollywoodGroundComposers
Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit... that's it.
Lata Mangeshkar
TodayVarietyOnlyLikeComposers
I have tremendous respect for film composers.
John Corigliano
RespectFilmTremendousComposers
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
MeThinkCallComposersPianist
I admire Turgenev, Camus, Proust and Shakespeare, but I've also learnt a lot about writing from composers and artists.
Hisham Matar
WritingAdmireArtistsComposersLot
There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.
Harold Prince
CreativeOutWonderfulComposers
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.
Andres Segovia
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