Author Profession

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone’s. The meaning of ‘God’ may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.

Profession : Composer

Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.

Profession : Composer

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands… something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.

Profession : Composer

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there’s more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you’re bankrupt.

Profession : Composer

These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but more.

Profession : Composer

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Profession : Composer

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

Profession : Composer

There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.

Profession : Composer

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It’s just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.

Profession : Composer

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

Profession : Composer