Great Composer Quotes
- Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside. — Ludwig van Beethoven
- The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled… — Ernest Newman
- 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 own! — Frederic Chopin
- I don't think they understand it's as important as math and science. It rounds you out as a person. I think it gives you a… — Marvin Hamlisch
- You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award. — John Corigliano
- Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer. — Michel Hazanavicius
- The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. — Ernest Newman