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  • I would love to compose more fantasy music, whether it's for a film or a game. That genre has so much opportunity for harmonic experimentation, not to mention all the interesting instruments that become available when composing music for alien species and other worlds.

  • Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

    Music   Mad   Would Be  
  • It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

    Music   Keys   Play  
  • I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

    Writing   Two   Together  
  • This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

    Music   Peace   Ubuntu  
    Leonard Bernstein (1982). “Findings”, Anchor
  • I used to look at composing music as problem solving. But as I get older, it's not about problem solving anymore. There are no solutions, because there are no problems. You just turn the tap and it flows out.

    Looks   Flow   Problem  
  • A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

    Music   Writing   Air  
    Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.162, Simon and Schuster
  • Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

    Love   Marriage   Flower  
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (1971). “Chagall at the Met”, Leon Amiel Publisher
  • A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

    In Peter Yates Twentieth Century Music (1967) pt. 1, ch. 8. Cf. T. S. Eliot 76:8, Lionel Trilling 218:1
  • Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

    Music   Giving   Lists  
  • Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

    Letter to Ferdinand Ries, 20 Dec. 1822
  • If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

    Music   Art   Reality  
    Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)
  • The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."

    Music   Art   Would Be  
    What to Listen for in Music (1939) ch. 2
  • It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

    Benjamin Britten (2011). “Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten”, Faber & Faber
  • A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

    Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.
  • Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.

  • Music is the space between the notes.

    Music   Art   Weekend  
    "Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving". Book by Jonathan G. Koomey (p. 96), 2001.
  • While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.

  • Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (1971). “Chagall at the Met”, Leon Amiel Publisher
  • A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

    Music   Found   Composer  
  • Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

    Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.13, Courier Corporation
  • When composing music, I just start spilling things out and then wait until they take form, you know what I mean, until I see like a common thread or something.

    Source: www.wbur.org
  • I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

    Music   Witty   Humorous  
    Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984)
  • If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.

  • I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

    Clever   School   College  
    "Anthony Hopkins: 'I've never been really close to anyone'". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2012.
  • If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

    Letter to Max Marschalk, March 26, 1896.
  • It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

    Strength   Music   Beauty  
  • Composing music is what makes me happy.

    Source: www.allkpop.com
  • All of a sudden it hit me - if there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can't there be figures of motion?

  • Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

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