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Sometimes, a remix is good because it reaches a whole new generation. But when it gets too much, it's irritating. Also, the original composer needs to be credited properly.

~A. R. Rahman

Topics: Also Because Composer Credited Generation Gets Good Irritating Much Needs New New Generation Original Properly Remix Sometimes Too Too Much Whole

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The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.

~A. R. Rahman

Topics: Any Biggest Biggest Challenge Boundaries Budget Challenge Composer Composers Copy Creative Dollars Existing Expect Freedom Get Hits Hollywood Less Like More Movie Possible Producers Put Scared Score Studio Successful Take Those Wallpaper Within

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I'm a film composer, but I'm a hip-hop guy.

~Adrian Younge

Topics: Composer Film Guy Hip-Hop

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Generally, as a composer, it's perceived as an employer-employee relationship.

~Adrian Younge

Topics: Composer Generally Perceived Relationship

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The 'Story of Silent Night', which was given to me one Christmas when I was six - it was the story of a down and out composer who had no ideas left, and it was Christmas, and he came up with the hymn 'Silent Night.'

~Adriana Trigiani

Topics: Came Christmas Composer Down Given Had He Ideas Left Me Night Out Silent Six Story Up Which Who

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The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed.

~Albert Murray

Topics: Be Prepared Competent Composer Contribute Execute Expected Function Improvisational Jazz Musicianship Must Nature Performer Prepared Progress Rehearsed Score Simply Truly Who Written

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I am but an architectural composer.

~Alexander Jackson Davis

Topics: Am Architectural Composer I Am

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If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

~Alfred Brendel

Topics: Belong Composed Composer He Like Makes Masterpiece Ought Performer Piece Should Tell Telling Tradition

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Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'

~Alfred Schnittke

Topics: Accordion Composer Do You Know Experience First Know Very You

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My father knew classical music very well. Driving in the car, listening to the radio, he could name every composer, every movement, what piece it was. I was fascinated by the way he recognized who wrote what.

~Anat Cohen

Topics: Car Classical Classical Music Composer Could Driving Every Fascinated Father He Knew Listening Movement Music Name Piece Radio Recognized Very Way Well Who Wrote

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