Communication Quote by Brian Ferneyhough

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

— Ken Hill

“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

Composers are very individual creatures.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

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

Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer…

— Clement Greenberg

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

— Ned Rorem

I am compared to other classical musicians, but most of them perform songs from other people, and most of those composers belong to another…

— Ludovico Einaudi

I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and…

— Maurice Ravel

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

— Gustav Mahler

How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal…

— David Mitchell

I think the reason composers aren't valued is because many act as servants rather than music directors. Instead of taking a stand based on…

— M. Jayachandran

Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this…

— Louise Talma