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I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office. Howard Shore
Time Wife Live Spend Park Documentary West Office Where Tuxedo Village Elizabeth Filmmaker
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares. Igor Stravinsky
Family Animal Animals Idiot Dare Member Cross Eminence Like Known Without Am Go Been Die Anymore Wherever Plague Stared Street Hardly Royal Royal Family Zoo
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. Igor Stravinsky
Music Time Man Sole Sole Purpose Given Purpose Between Particularly Establishing Order Us Including Coordination Things
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading. Igor Stravinsky
Music Relationship Book Somebody Reading Living Drama Piano Am Same Room Should Film Film Music Living Room Playing
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators. Igor Stravinsky
Imitators Prestige Gives Real His Artist
What force is more potent than love? Igor Stravinsky
Love More Potent Force Than
I am an inventor of music. Igor Stravinsky
Music Inventor Am
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead. Igor Stravinsky
Love Music Appreciation Respect People Too Much Trouble Too General Instead Taught To Love Much Should
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? Igor Stravinsky
Love Alone Penetrating Very Essence Being Succeed
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos? Igor Stravinsky
Music Like Piece Always Hear Whenever Why
The result of this union would be, not the fortuitous result of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of a single thought. Jacques Ibert
Result Thought Single Harmonious Synthesis Would Would-Be Single Thought Aspects Fortuitous Union Series Two
To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette. James Horner
Me Writing Painting Broad Strokes Composing About More Brushes Computer Write Piano Colors Like Very Notes Much Use Palette Desk
The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out. James Horner
Music Job Out Involved Audience How Forget Get Movie Turns
My tastes went all over the place, from Strauss to Mahler. I was never a big Wagner or Tchaikovsky fan. Benjamin Britten, Tallis, all the early English Medieval music, Prokofiev, some Russian composers, mostly the people that were the colorists, the French. James Horner
Music People Big Composers Some Russian Mahler Never Over French Mostly Wagner Were Tastes Fan Place English Early Medieval
I'm used to working with the director and producer, and that's my relationship. It's very simple. James Horner
Relationship Director Simple Very Producer Working Used
The sound world that I created for 'Avatar' had to be very different, really, than anything I ever created before. There is also three hours of music. James Horner
Music World Three Before Had Hours Also Sound Very Than Different Anything Avatar Created Really Ever
I don't use a computer in writing at all. I'm sort of old-fashioned about it. James Horner
Writing About Computer Sort Use Old-Fashioned
All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense. James Tenney
Musicians People Sense Strictest Composers Being Professional Kept
The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like. Jerome Kern
Music Me Better Other Composers Fact Write Like Likes Public Who Many Credit
If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good. Jerry Goldsmith
Music Good Will Doubt Our Our Music No Doubt Because Survives Which Then
I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience. Jerry Herman
Generation Musical Musical Theater New New Generation Audience Trying Theater Create Bring
I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out. Jerry Herman
Love Out Kind Seeing Up Die Want Grew Theater
My mother says I was vaccinated with a phonograph needle. I love to talk. I just love to talk. Jerry Hunt
Love Mother Says Phonograph Talk Just Needle
In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did. Jerry Hunt
Music You Important Kind Did Special Thing
I don't think I could have ever had a career as a pianist because I never ever wanted to play the notes the way they were written, I was too sloppy to learn them quite right. Jerry Hunt
Think Too Way Sloppy Could Pianist Never Had Written Learn Because Were Quite Wanted Them Notes Ever Play Right Career
You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference. Jimmy Webb
Life You Say Point Reach Make Make A Difference Difference Where Certain Your Certain Point Things
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