Quotes About Music

It's a very fun project as a composer to work on a movie that has music in its core.

It's interesting: composers can be very funny ducks.

Composers are always going back to the past.

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

Brahms is one of my all-time favorite composers.

As improvisers, we're acting as composers in front of people.

I would really love to do the score for movies. Pick the music and work with composers. I don't know if I'd be any good at it, but I love music.

I admire Turgenev, Camus, Proust and Shakespeare, but I've also learnt a lot about writing from composers and artists.

If somebody says, 'Well, what are your favorite composers?' really, what they are saying is, 'What are your favorite composers apart from Bach?' Because obviously, Bach is your favorite composer if you are involved in music at all.

I loved a lot of the romantic composers.

It's really been enlightening for me to work with composers because I used to think that everything in the music was exactly what the composer meant. Well, it's what the composer meant in that moment when they wrote it.

My favourite composers are Vishal Shekhar, AR Rahman, Shankar Ehsaan-Loy.

I think TV composers don't get enough credit. I really think it is one of the hardest jobs.

We love what we do. We're passionate about making music and as composers; that's just who we are.

Many composers are asked to come up with three great songs in ten days... But it's rare for us to pull that off. You cannot force the brain to make a great song and I'm very scared of doing bad work.

I'm the benefactor of people who are doing so much hard work championing women composers.

Time is the main subject for any musicians, music writers, composers.

You never know what you're going to learn from which pieces and which composers and colleagues are going to influence that thing you think you know.

My father Apresh Lahiri and mother Bansari Lahiri were great composers of their time.

I want Bappa to be amongst the best music composers. My father was a great singer and I also did quite well and now my son would take forward the legacy, as music is in our blood.

But it can be tough for new composers as directors tend to block you out.

Our job as composers becomes easy when directors have a good knowledge of music and know exactly what they want.

I began working as an assistant since the age of 16 with my father Dabboo Malik, went on to work with composers like Amar Mohile, Salim-Sulaiman, Pritam Da, and Sandeep Chowta.

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.