Composer Quote by Arturo Toscanini

“Take your hat off.”

— Don Draper

When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area…

— Kiri Te Kanawa

I always keep my repertorial hat on.

— Mark Leibovich

I had always wanted to don the director's hat and was waiting for the right time.

— Salim Kumar

I admire Johann Strauss a lot. I believe he was a genius of his time.

— Andre Rieu

In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer.

— Bob Fosse

I remain extraordinarily proud of the Vaughan Williams symphonies I recorded with the LSO, and in the 1980s and '90s, I made an almost…

— Andre Previn

I consider myself a composer.

— Timbaland

You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

Where would I be without Johann Strauss's beautiful 'Blue Danube?' Without this piece of music I wouldn't be the man I am today. It's…

— Andre Rieu

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's…

— Frederic Chopin

“O it is my God that hath been here, and left his sweet perfume of comfort behind him in my bosom! my God that…

— Gurnall, William