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I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion
While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
To me, when something is classic, whether it came out today or thirty years ago, it falls all in the same pot.
I started buying ill, obscure records, and then I saw Portishead and Air live, and my mouth was on the ground.
No matter what they tell you, no matter what they do, no matter what they teach you, what you believe is true.
Because her voice is, it's like the muscles and it develops all the time. That was the fantastic thing for us.
Early on, I was a performer playing classical music. It's in my DNA in a way that I can't begin to extract it.
Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.
Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.
In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.
The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.
When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
Artists live with God – but give their little finger to Satan. I sleep with the angels and dream of the devil.
I compose the music according to the nature of the show. 'Peter Gunn's' focus was violence so that was my key.
I don't like to surprise anyone with the music I compose for a film. That way, there is less trouble later on.
Hopefully the music of the future will not be all electronic. There is a place for it if it is used sparingly.
I know a few chords on the guitar, but I wouldn't be able do a show or even be part of a jam session with one.
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?
Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.
You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.
The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.
It takes a minute to say hello Why? I wonder why When it's seems to take forever When you have to say Goodbye?
O Yes, I must sing, and so must you sing also. For all music is singing, and in music there is praise of life.
My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.
Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.
The harmonious efforts which our guitarists produce unconsciously represent one of the marvels of natural art.
Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.
To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.
I am an observer of life, a non-participant who takes no sides. I am in the regimented society, but not of it.
Machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time. But now that it's the opposite it's twice upon a time.
I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad.
I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this.
Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a skillful join must be made.
But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
I always say it's not my Arkestra, it belongs to some other force which wants certain things, to reach people.
Fortune, honour, beauty, youth, Are but blossoms dying; Wanton pleasures, doting love, Are but shadows flying.
Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure.
I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.
For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.
I think cross-cultural dialogue is something that has hugely impacted the richness of the culture of our world.
Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way.
The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence.
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.
Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.
Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.
Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement.