Unfortunately, we have very few female composers in our…

Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

— Carlisle Floyd

Statistically in the UK, there are so many fewer female composers than male songwriters and they're marketed in a way that - females are…

— Kate Nash

Is there a gender gap in the music industry? It is true that there are more professional male music creators than female. For some…

— Barbara Harbach

“(These younger composers were generally male, but then composers were almost exclusively male. Even the female composers were almost exclusively male.)”

— Wesley Stace

There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's…

— Evelyn Glennie

It is such an honor to be one of the youngest composers to compose for an Amitabh Bachchan film.

— Amaal Mallik

In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.

— Hoagy Carmichael

The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take…

— A. R. Rahman

Men have been in the forefront of music for centuries, and they have written glorious music, loved and appreciated by many. In some ways,…

— Barbara Harbach

As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach. I love Paganini, too, the Italian composer…

— Matt Schulze

As improvisers, we're acting as composers in front of people.

— Kurt Elling

I always loved the motion picture scores and the great film composers like Elmer Bernstein.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.

— George Gershwin

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

— Judy Holliday

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…

— J. J. Johnson