Quotes About Composition

I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.

Music is half the film.

My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes.

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard

Most of my records are very dense, composition-heavy, and there's bits of different kinds of music like an acoustic ballad, instrumental trio pieces, and vocal tracks.

I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out.

We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.

I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation.

Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.

What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.

The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.

I look at people like musical instruments. I set people to music.

Music, the mosaic of the air.

Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs.

I don't think events in your life affect your music.

I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.