#compose

With the new technology that keeps entering the media, film composers are constantly being placed in new learning situations. Acknowledging this and realizing that one must keep up, I maintain, nonetheless, that the real creative power is in the mind and heart of the composer. ↗

— Henry Mancini

#music #music

This music, transmitted by loud-speakers, made a masterpiece appear like an amateurish attempt at composition by nimcompoop ↗

— Paul Hindemith

#world #music

Having considered Handel's tumultuous opera career and his first term at Covent Garden in the 1730s, perhaps we may dare to suggest he was one of the foremost pioneers in establishing autonomy within the traditional system of music patronage, notwithstanding his efforts to become an independent impressario often proved disappointing. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#composers #covent-garden #handel #impressario #music-patronage

Many contemporary composers have been building walls of sounds following their own clever devices. But then, who lives inside those rooms? ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#ma #music #takemitsu #music

To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#collaborator #composer #film #final #make

These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#appear #cedar #colours #composed #covered

And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs. ↗

— Victoria de los Angeles

#always #because #books #choose #compose

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ↗

— Aristotle

#bodies #composed #inhabiting #love is #single

It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars... knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear. ↗

— Richard H. Baker

#brief #composer #distant #during #fall

I've worked with some of the great cinematographers. So I'm always watching what they do and I'm watching how the director composes his shots, just because I find it interesting as an actor; you're trying to help them out as well. ↗

— Eric Bana

#always #because #composes #director #find