Assuming Quote by Aaron Copland

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

— Michala Petri

That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least…

— Paul Banks

The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that…

— Jerome Kern

Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop…

— Hilary Hahn

I've always said there aren't great composers- there are great songs.

— Vicente Fernandez

To be a composer, you have to be a die-hard music lover - which I am.

— Devi Sri Prasad

It's so interesting, you know, whenever you read the accounts of composers playing their own music, that they had very different priorities than performers.…

— Helene Grimaud

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

— Michael Tilson Thomas

Composers are very individual creatures.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may…

— John Blacking

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

— John Philip Sousa

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