Composer Quote by Christopher Tin

I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I'm not really a professional composer; I just compose now and then when someone asks me to.

— Stephen Hough

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

— Richard Meale

I don't really call myself a composer.

— Caroline Shaw

I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety.

— Andris Nelsons

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the…

— Fred Frith

I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what…

— Giorgio Moroder

If you're a composer, there's never a moment you're not working.

— Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer.

— Benjamin Britten

I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the…

— Steven Price

Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought…

— Pierre Boulez

I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to stay pure in that process and be worthy of…

— John Zorn