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Michael Bolton

"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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups."

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Donna Grant

"The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors."

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Donna Grant

"Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today."

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Donna Grant

"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."

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Donna Grant

"The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing."

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Donna Grant

"Composers are always going back to the past."

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Donna Grant

"In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers."

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Donna Grant

"I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven."

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Donna Grant

"Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully."

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Donna Grant

"There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!"

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Michael Bolton
"No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing."

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Michael Bolton
"The whole industry evolves around a great song."

Music

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Michael Bolton
"I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself."

Love

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Michael Bolton
"Sinatra, here's a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies, but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped up to the microphone."

Movies

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Michael Bolton
"I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?"

Control

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Michael Bolton
"You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care."

Care

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Michael Bolton
"There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna."

People

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Michael Bolton
"Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being."

Being

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Michael Bolton
"One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist."

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Michael Bolton
"For years I've kept a list of dream projects."

Dream

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