Composer's Vision Quotes

At the end of the day, I am singing the composer's creation, and I follow the instructions given to me. What I feel may be a right take may not work for the composer or his vision on how he thinks the song should sound.

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

I've been extremely lucky to work with Elmer Bernstein, Howard Shore over the years, but I've always imagined films with my own scores, because I don't come from that world or that period of filmmaking. And so how could I make up my own score on a film like this where it isn't necessarily made up of popular music from the radio or the period; it isn't necessarily classical music. But what if it's modern symphonic music?

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.

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

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

'End of Summer' expands the way I want to express myself as a composer. It's a piece of visual music that has this narrative and conceptual dimension to it.

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.