I just think I started off like many composers, just in…

I in fact started doing theatre before a lot of film people started doing it and I started my website before anybody else.

— Poonam Dhillon

I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.

— David Del Tredici

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

— Nobuo Uematsu

I wish school started at like...never.

— Anonymous

To me, The Hard Way' is as raw and vital as anything I was doing when I first started only its way better!

— John Waite

Composers now just don't have the depth of inspiration for melody. Most of the lyrics of the pop songs you hear today are repetitious.…

— Rudy Vallee

We love what we do. We're passionate about making music and as composers; that's just who we are.

— John Petrucci

The generation of composers that are just preceded me, people like [Karlheinz] Stockhausen, [Pierre] Boulez, and, well, [John] Cage for that matter,[Morton] Feldman ...…

— Philip Glass

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore…

— Neil Young

I'm going to stick to college radio, like I been started off, like I started off with in the day.

— Redman

When I was, like, 16, I had, like, my first, like, bit of software and stuff. So then I started, like, making music and…

— Cuco

“You think I started out like this? Well, I didn't. I started out like anyone else - young and hopeful. I started out arrogant…

— Gail Levy

It started like a joke I never thought it would come to this. Today I'm walking in the bushes, like a criminal.

— Lucky Dube

You started like a saint and now you've finished like a thief

— Stephen Kellogg

When I first started out, they were like, 'Is there anybody that you like that you want to work with, and we'll see what…

— Lewis Capaldi