Composer Quote by Cornelius Cardew

Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop…

— Hilary Hahn

As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak…

— Eric Whitacre

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.

— Sarah Brightman

Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.

— George Gershwin

If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing…

— Jean-Jacques Nattiez

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

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the…

— Elfriede Jelinek

The model of a composer.

— Benjamin Britten

The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else than a…

— George Gershwin

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

— Gustav Mahler

Musicians are also interpretive artists and we are just as creative as painters and writers. We interpret in a way that expresses ourselves.

— Hilary Hahn

The best results come when people believe in and feel strongly about the music they are playing. Just as composers write for certain types…

— Michael Hersch