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A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express different storytelling ideas.

— Howard Shore

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.

— Michael Bolton

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

— Hanns Eisler

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

— Ken Hill

The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.

— Steven Price

Music is one of the last elements in the creative process. It can and hopefully should tie a bow around an artistic concept, how a story moves forward, the pace of that storytelling.

— Thomas Newman

As a composer, I'm basically trying to represent myself through my music in an honest way.

— Miguel Zenon

I don't really call myself a composer.

— Caroline Shaw

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

— Leo Ornstein

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.

— Michael Bolton

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

— Ken Burns