Always Quote by Daniel Barenboim

“You should all know how to read music. It's as basic to understanding the composer's reaction as knowing how to read words on a…

— Jennifer Laurens

When we work on a piece of music, we'll often read the biographies of the composer and learn about what was going on historically…

— Helene Grimaud

It is important for the musician to learn as much about the composer as possible and to study the music he has written. Then,…

— Vladimir Horowitz

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's…

— Frederic Chopin

The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

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

— Devi Sri Prasad

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

To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.

— Gustav Mahler

I don't think they understand it's as important as math and science. It rounds you out as a person. I think it gives you…

— Marvin Hamlisch

I can admire music where you feel the composer has everything organized and perfectly shaped, but it doesn't touch me. I like to feel…

— Stephen Hough

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated…

— Hanns Eisler

I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart.

— Bradley Joseph