Composers are always going back to the past.

In fact, if you take any group of scores, it's likely that fifty to sixty percent are going to be so much alike that…

— Jennifer Higdon

I don't like anything going past me. Anything. And I like to keep it that way.

— Aaron Wan-Bissaka

Lets be sane here for a minute it's the only way were going to move past it..

— Kevin McCarty

I try to think of a way to get there without going past it. There are lots of ways, but they all have me…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

Going back to the past is not productive.

— John L. Flannery

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

— Eckhart Tolle

“going past her on a gurney, surrounded”

— Danielle Steel

I'm not a guy who is going back in the past.

— Goran Dragic

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