Composer

In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.

- Karlheinz Stockhausen Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When I came back I had to realize that IC was not in a very good shape - all the much money that we had because of the huge Ideal success, was gone. I was very upset.

- Klaus Schulze Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.

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If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.

- Johannes Brahms Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess

- Maurice Ravel Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Here is how I work when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

- Michel Legrand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Lean was a director always compromised with his work, but not only in directing, but also in the other technical and artistic aspects.

- Maurice Jarre Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.

- Brian Ferneyhough Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I don't want to seen to be preaching of course, any artist is free to approach previous materials in any way that seems interesting.

- Brian Ferneyhough Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process.

- Brian Ferneyhough Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.

- William Gilbert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

- Franz Schubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.

- John Zorn Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath.

- Oscar Levant Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.

- Alan Hovhaness Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

- Aaron Copland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

To make them work, I rewrote some verses and additional lyrics and they are working very well. It's going to be a very exciting production.

- Cy Coleman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

- John Cage Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.

- John Cage Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I don't think I could have ever had a career as a pianist because I never ever wanted to play the notes the way they were written, I was too sloppy to learn them quite right.

- Jerry Hunt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

- La Young Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Our family lived in Vienna, Austria. after the war and apart from an accordion, there was no other musical instrument available.

- Alfred Schnittke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When I'm in bars or clubs, it gets to the point where I feel I'm obliged to streak. It's not a problem.

- Mark Roberts Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts.

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God knows when I'm going to retire. I think I'm going to be bored.

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