Apply Quote by Brian Ferneyhough

If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.

— Peter Shaffer

Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?

— Robert Schumann

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

— Gustav Mahler

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

“Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.”

— Kamand Kojouri

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point…

— Levi Strauss

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one…

— Aphex Twin

Composers are always going back to the past.

— Anne Dudley

All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.

— George Gershwin

What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally.

— Richard Meale