A composer knows that music is written by human beings for…

Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.

— Hanns Eisler

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

— Hector Berlioz

I think no composer knows he's creating a hit until the audience gives it a nod.

— Amaal Mallik

In some way, my fundamental feeling about music is that it's impossible to put a price tag on it. Human beings made music before…

— Amanda Palmer

“Human beings were made for music. Its thrill and rapture are picked up almost immediately by little children”

— Edward O. Wilson

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

— Toru Takemitsu

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

— Isaac Hanson

I still don't have a real appreciation for music because I didn't really start listening to it until my 20s. My wife knows everything…

— Kumail Nanjiani

I think the guy who tells you he knows about music is really dumb, or he's lying to himself.

— Allan Holdsworth

Karen was always the more visible part of the group, which was fine, but I think anyone who knows anything about music will know…

— Richard Carpenter

Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody…

— Nat Wolff

Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk…

— Michael Azerrad

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

— Jack Kirby

My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First…

— Elliott Carter

To compose is to remember music that has never been written.

— Robert Schumann