Quotes About Expression

I write arrangements. I'm sort of a wannabe composer.

'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly.

I'm a composer, man.

I consider myself a composer.

What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.

For me, I'm sort of a wanna-be composer, and I love being involved with the arrangements.

Performing was always something that I actually used to do before I settled in the studio as a composer.

I don't think there's such a difference between older and newer music as there is between one composer and another.

If you just want ten songs to fit somebody else's script, then I'm not really the composer for that.

The thing I don't want to do as a film composer is reiterate. I prefer to subtextualize or to underline rather than to say, 'This is what you should be feeling.'

I never jump on to a song and say 'I will only sing it.' I am not too obsessed as a singer. I am happy being a composer.

According to me, one composer should do one film.

I wanted to be a composer.

See, I have two selves in me - a musician and a composer.

It's interesting: composers can be very funny ducks.

As improvisers, we're acting as composers in front of people.

I would really love to do the score for movies. Pick the music and work with composers. I don't know if I'd be any good at it, but I love music.

I admire Turgenev, Camus, Proust and Shakespeare, but I've also learnt a lot about writing from composers and artists.

It's really been enlightening for me to work with composers because I used to think that everything in the music was exactly what the composer meant. Well, it's what the composer meant in that moment when they wrote it.

We love what we do. We're passionate about making music and as composers; that's just who we are.

Time is the main subject for any musicians, music writers, composers.

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

Composing is an emotional thing.

I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.