Cherish Quote by Bartlett Sher

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

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

— Igor Stravinsky

I can admire music where you feel the composer has everything organized and perfectly shaped, but it doesn't touch me. I like to feel…

— Stephen Hough

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

— Leo Ornstein

I like songs to mean something as well as sound good, and Paul Simon is a maestro. While Art Garfunkel was a voice and…

— Tim Pigott-Smith

There's a bit of a difference in the way he sounds. Samuel E. Wright lent his voice and personality to the animated film with…

— Tituss Burgess

An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.

— Karl Kraus

“Jan Garbarek about Keith Jarrett: “What people don’t consider is all his wonderful ways of accompanying his own melodies. That is only that version.…

— Ian Carr

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

— Harold Prince

The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact…

— Renee Fleming

It is a great feeling to be called an international composer in the true sense.

— Anu Malik

I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

— Samuel Barber