17th century Quote by Aaron Zigman

I think we have a lot in common with classical composers of the 19th century, although I'm not claiming to have their intelligence. They…

— Matt Bellamy

There was this kind of dictatorship of the Darmstadt school, composers like Boulez and Stockhausen, who were very strict and orthodox. They would not…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

— Pepe Romero

“[If] it were possible to watch composing in the same way that one can watch painting, if composers could have _ateliers_ as did painters,…

— Arnold Schoenberg

Music was not invented by the composer, but found.

— Nadia Boulanger

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the…

— Ennio Morricone

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

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the…

— Ennio Morricone

My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.

— Sergei Prokofiev

“It was Haydn and Mozart who really cracked the sonata, but it was Beethoven who reinvented it, just as he reinvented the symphony. Bach…

— Rachel Joyce

Modern European composers...have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition of musical…

— George Gershwin

There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a…

— Robert Wyatt