Top 50 Music Director Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Music Director Quotes from famous people such as Arjun Janya, Jubin Nautiyal, Javed Ali, Santhosh Narayanan, Bappi Lahiri, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

'Raaga' is one of those movies which is very special fo

‘Raaga’ is one of those movies which is very special for any music director to compose music for.
Arjun Janya
Rahman sir was the first music director I met and I was very nervous after meeting him. I made him listen to some of my songs nervously and he told me that my tone is good but I required working on the maturity of my voice with respect to my age. That was the golden advice I got from him.
Jubin Nautiyal
In independent music, you are the badshah and there are no restrictions, which allow you to embrace your true music. Whereas in playback, your first obligation is to your music director and then to your sensibilities.
Javed Ali
A movie like Mercury’ is a once in a generation opportunity for me. It doesn’t come easily to a music director and I am privileged to have gotten this opportunity.
Santhosh Narayanan
Lata Mangeshkar is an old friend. I knew her through my father Aparesh Lahiri who was a music director in Calcutta.
Bappi Lahiri
Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything.
Trey Anastasio
When I decided that I will become a music director, the first thing I wanted to do was to make songs for Vishesh Films as I used to love their musicals. I had eight to ten songs which I had made only for them and fortunately ‘Sun Raha Hai’ from that list was liked by them and it actually opened doors for me.
Ankit Tiwari
The performance of a music director should be judged in a holistic manner, which includes songs as well as background score.
Ilaiyaraaja
I became a music director because I never saw my father get the success he deserved.
Amaal Mallik
I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.
Zubin Mehta
The art of sewing lyrics with the tune is very interesting as a music director.
Ankit Tiwari
When I started singing, people said I couldn’t sing because I was a music director. I proved them wrong.
Himesh Reshammiya
I am happy film stars are singing in their films. I hope to work as a music director for a film where actors will sing all the songs.
Yo Yo Honey Singh
I think I still want to be a music director as a grown man.
Max Minghella
A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor’s party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.
Leonard Slatkin
When I started singing, people said I couldn’t sing because I was a music director. I proved them wrong.
Himesh Reshammiya
I’m having a blast being the music director at the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. It certainly is challenging for me, but I love challenges.
Joshua Bell
Initially, when I started working in Tollywood, there were only three or four releases in a year. But after 2010-11, the figure went up to three-four releases per month. It’s impossible for one music director to work simultaneously in so many films.
Jeet Gannguli
I was studying music in college. I was singing, I was doing operas and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and then I was offered a job as the music director of the Bigfork Summer Playhouse, in Bigfork, Montana.
J. K. Simmons
I was studying music in college. I was singing, I was doing operas and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and then I was offered a job as the music director of the Bigfork Summer Playhouse, in Bigfork, Montana.
J. K. Simmons
The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.
Richard Morris
The orchestra confides in me about their music director or their conductor, and I’ve never seen a conductor that’s been liked by everyone.
Joshua Bell
I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.
Zubin Mehta
I was the music director at a dinner theater called the ‘Pheasant Run Theater’ in the suburbs of Chicago, and that was my side gig while I acted.
Sean Hayes
I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
Daniel Barenboim
Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer’s job.
Tony Visconti
The art of sewing lyrics with the tune is very interesting as a music director.
Ankit Tiwari
In independent music, you are the badshah and there are no restrictions, which allow you to embrace your true music. Whereas in playback, your first obligation is to your music director and then to your sensibilities.
Javed Ali
Actually, my career as a music director turned out to be a disappointment. I believed I gave good songs but the response and recognition from the industry was not great.
Vijay Antony
I have a lot of musician friends. I worked in radio as a music director, and I know everybody hears about the George Straits and the Garth Brooks and the Kenny Chesneys and all that, but for every major star, there are thousands who didn’t quite make it.
Robert David Hall
When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.
Erich Leinsdorf
Every song that I compose has to satisfy the music dire

Every song that I compose has to satisfy the music director in me.
Gopi Sundar
When I was playing piano, it was like, ‘I’m going to write a song using all the white keys.’ My music director, who knew my jazz background, suggested I try big-band music, so we spent a year experimenting with it in concert, and the audience reaction was really good.
John Tesh
I became a music director because I never saw my father get the success he deserved.
Amaal Mallik
Rahman sir was the first music director I met and I was very nervous after meeting him. I made him listen to some of my songs nervously and he told me that my tone is good but I required working on the maturity of my voice with respect to my age. That was the golden advice I got from him.
Jubin Nautiyal
Acting is just another facet and it will not affect my output as a music director.
Vijay Antony
I was the music director at a dinner theater called the ‘Pheasant Run Theater’ in the suburbs of Chicago, and that was my side gig while I acted.
Sean Hayes
The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.
Richard Morris
DSP is not only a music director for many of my films, but he is also a very dear friend.
Allu Arjun
I knew my limitations even when I was a music director.
Vijay Antony
I had a blind belief in myself and became a music director and an actor.
Vijay Antony
I’m a composer, music director, singer and performer. So it is a Bollywood rule that people don’t know who has sung a song and whether your voice will be chosen.
Ankit Tiwari
I’m a composer, music director, singer and performer. So it is a Bollywood rule that people don’t know who has sung a song and whether your voice will be chosen.
Ankit Tiwari
Lata Mangeshkar is an old friend. I knew her through my father Aparesh Lahiri who was a music director in Calcutta.
Bappi Lahiri
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
Georg Solti
The orchestra confides in me about their music director or their conductor, and I’ve never seen a conductor that’s been liked by everyone.
Joshua Bell
I knew my limitations even when I was a music director.
Vijay Antony
I have a lot of musician friends. I worked in radio as a music director, and I know everybody hears about the George Straits and the Garth Brooks and the Kenny Chesneys and all that, but for every major star, there are thousands who didn’t quite make it.
Robert David Hall
I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
Daniel Barenboim
A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor’s party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.
Leonard Slatkin