Composer Quote by Constant Lambert

“Composers were warned not to strain the attention of their audience, as though we had not at our disposal different degrees of attention, among…

— Marcel Proust

The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

— Ernest Newman

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

— Frank Zappa

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

“Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent.”

— Charles Bukowski

Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

— Leonard Bernstein

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later…

— Igor Stravinsky

One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk…

— H. L. Mencken

“Music gives inspiration...one that sounds windy with humming sound, such can put you in a trance, only to come back and discover some witty…

— Michael Bassey Johnson