And love Quote by Charles Mingus

The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

— Arthur Honegger

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

— Gyorgy Ligeti

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from…

— Milton Babbitt

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

— Ned Rorem

It's funny because as a composer, you want to hear your songs live on. I think a lot of times people will create a…

— Christian Scott

Give the composer time to experiment, time to try out ideas. Also, the time to fail. When the composer has very little time, the…

— Johann Johannsson

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

— Devi Sri Prasad

In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer.

— Bob Fosse

The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

— Arthur Honegger

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

I hope people just enjoy the music. I'm not worried about any sort of legacy. Whether people view me more as the drummer in…

— Glenn Kotche

I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code,…

— Yo-Yo Ma