At school, I wrote in the style of the Dutch composers…

“Cooking is an art and patience a virtue... Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There is one…

— Keith Floyd

Today at school I wrote an essay about Flag Day which was so beautiful, but ever so beautiful - for I even used words…

— Clarice Lispector

“In high school I wrote an essay on baseball and my teacher told me I had to rewrite it on a more serious topic.…

— Tucker Elliot

In middle school I wrote a paper on Hemingway and none of the sentences had more than five words.

— Elizabeth Crook

“The Sun Tzu School (which wrote the Art of War) surely never imagined that their antiwar, pro-empire treatise would become known and accepted after…

— David G. Jones

Composers are very individual creatures.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Usually composers need a reason to write. I need a deadline.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

For years, my favorite composers had been Monteverdi and Bach. Then I began to rediscover the 19th century, see it from another perspective.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

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

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

— Judy Holliday

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

— George Gershwin

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

— Frank Sinatra Jr

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

— Kurt Elling

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

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