I'm not an architectural composer.
I think a composer is always interested in his last work.
I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.
I've always been a composer dependent on texts.
Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer have anything to say and take to performing instead of stating.
The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.
I have declared that I will work free of cost with those composers who are passionate about their work. Sohail Sen is one such lad, whose music in Banjaara has been liked a lot.
Puccini - silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled.
The most important person is the audience and the composer. The rest of us - and even the composer is a servant to the audience. And of course, the audience is a servant to the higher art.
The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth.
The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me.
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.
There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear to stop many times before they actually do.
The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.
I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.
I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.
I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally.
Both costume and fashion are about telling a story, except that in a ballet the story has already been written by the composer or the librettist.
Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!
As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.
Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.
I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.
To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.
