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Film composers are the most prolific music makers on this planet, and most of us are, like, losing our minds if we're doing five or more movies in a year.

~Christopher Young

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For me personally, Elliott Carter was and remains one of the most meaningful composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries because he represents substance. He was the living proof of uncompromising, complex music, which at first seems inaccessible. But it becomes accessible if one digs in and sees the development through.

~Daniel Barenboim

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In a fit at the bookstore one day, I bought all my favourite composers' biographies: Schubert, Massenet, Wolf. I've still not had a chance to read them; it breaks my heart. But when you travel so much, you just can't take that many books with you.

~Danielle De Niese

Topics: Biographies Books Bookstore Bought Breaks Chance Composers Day Favourite Fit Had Heart Just Many Much One Day Read Still Take Them Travel Wolf You

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Most theatre people and composers are like research hounds.

~David Bryan

Topics: Composers Hound Like Most People Research Theatre

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Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.

~David Del Tredici

Topics: American Best Composers Diverse Energy Iconoclastic Maverick Most Skillful Time Well Where World

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I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.

~David Del Tredici

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Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

~David Del Tredici

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Film music has a great history of composers and performers.

~David Newman

Topics: Composers Film Film Music Great History Music Performers

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Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

~Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Topics: Certain Composers Form Found Many Only Texts Themselves Through Way

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Dietz and Schwartz have sort of fallen by the wayside a little bit, and they are up there with Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. They are the finest of the revue composers - their stuff is so good and so strong.

~Douglas Carter Beane

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