Common Quote by Claude Debussy

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

— Harold Prince

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

Composers are very individual creatures.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

It's so interesting, you know, whenever you read the accounts of composers playing their own music, that they had very different priorities than performers.…

— Helene Grimaud

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

— Charles Hazlewood

There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching…

— David Bowie

Some directors can become concerned when it comes to music, because it's the end of the process and they're tired. They're worried that the…

— Alexandre Desplat

The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America.

— Gail Zappa

Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may…

— John Blacking

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.

— Aaron Copland

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

— Pepe Romero

“In the home of this music, alas, religious fanatics have lately started killing the musicians. They think the music is an insult to god,…

— Salman Rushdie