Composer Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the…

— Virgil Thomson

Biggest fact of life- even if all the musician join together to create a melody to make us sleep, they cannot win over our…

— Hafsa

“Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Concert pianists get to be quite chummy with dead composers. They can't help it. Classical music isn't just music . It's a personal diary.…

— Marisha Pessl

“Great sleepless artists who had to die for a few hours in order to live for centuries.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from…

— Milton Babbitt

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he…

— Marc Chagall

Some directors can become concerned when it comes to music, because it's the end of the process and they're tired. They're worried that the…

— Alexandre Desplat

a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.

— Alice Foote MacDougall

A composer's a pretty lonely life. When people talk about premieres and movie star - no. We sit in a dark room and spend…

— Lorne Balfe

Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.

— Cliff Martinez

The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

— Ernest Newman