Composer Quote by Benjamin Britten

I don't really call myself a composer.

— Caroline Shaw

I consider myself a composer.

— Timbaland

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

Being a composer is a little like being a painter. Sometimes you hire a painter because you want a beautiful painting for your wall,…

— Bear McCreary

Composers are very individual creatures.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

— Frank Zappa

To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.

— Gustav Mahler

If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

— Ned Rorem

When you think about a composer you know like Wagner or Pier Boulez or something like that most of the issues a composer is…

— DJ Spooky

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated…

— Hanns Eisler

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

— John Philip Sousa

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

— Devi Sri Prasad