Quotes About Art

I just have to take my chances like any other composer.

I think of myself as a film composer.

I am happy to be a composer.

See, as a music composer, I am not competing with any music composer.

I'm not an architectural composer.

'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly.

Puccini is my favorite composer.

Performing was always something that I actually used to do before I settled in the studio as a composer.

I don't think there's such a difference between older and newer music as there is between one composer and another.

I'm a composer like every maestro on this earth.

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.

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.

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

Composing is an emotional thing.

Composing music for 'Mungaru Male 2' is a big responsibility and challenge.

Music is the medium. Words merely enhance the composition.

So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.

Lyrics is the face of any song. The combination of composition, lyrics and singing is what makes a song a song.

If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism.

As long as I don't have to compromise my art, that's the most important thing. It doesn't matter if I'm famous or not, it's all about the music.

My compulsion is to create things.

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I'm not writing.