Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.
Louise Talma
It`s nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector`s item.
Fred Astaire
When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.
Michael Bolton
There`s no crusade here, but I am trying to slip classical music in through the back door, ... I think people can talk about classical composers in the same breath as contemporary music. All music is good music.
William Orbit
Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.
George Crumb
It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, empathetic musicians, who are great individually but who also have a great sense for cooperation and collaboration, great listeners as well as great players.
Joshua Redman
I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it`s also important to do the music of Handel, one of the greatest composers of the 18th century.
Cecilia Bartoli
I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years` time.
Andrew Tagli
I think the thing`s that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven`t come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50`s when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn`t win the Tony ...
Andrew Lloyd Webber
I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He`s one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.
Cecilia Bartoli
I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers` music is very topical. It almost says, `This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.` Not mine.
Alex Tagliani
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
Sir Thomas Beecham
