The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

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

— Hanns Eisler

Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues…

— Larry Coryell

Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and wild. He's…

— Michael Brecker

“- Mom, can I tell them there that I'm Romanian? - Sure, why not tell them? - I was thinking that they wouldn't think...…

— George Enescu

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

— Brian Greene

The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the…

— Santiago Calatrava

If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

— Ned Rorem

Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to…

— Ernest Gold

I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people. And I…

— Missy Mazzoli

The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.

— Signe Baumane

When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.

— Alexandre Desplat

A mission that comes from the heart to promote these things and to encourage composers to write, then of course they should do it.…

— Marc-Andre Hamelin

The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet…

— William Beebe

Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music…

— Robert Lopez

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic…

— Carlisle Floyd