Biographies Quote by Danielle de Niese

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

— John Edensor Littlewood

Fortunately, I started very young, so I read music very well. And my favorite composers to play are Brahms and Mozart.

— Condoleezza Rice

I used to read a lot of Steinbeck, and I admired Roger Miller and Bob Dylan.

— John Prine

I loved a lot of the romantic composers.

— Alice Merton

I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and…

— Maurice Ravel

My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to…

— Patti LuPone

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.

— Nina Blackwood

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

— Enya

Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.

— Joanna Scott

Tom Kitt aside - he's in his own category with me, of course - Stephen Sondheim is one of my all-time favorite composers.

— Alice Ripley

To this day, I still travel with scores. Every time I'm on a plane - it could be Stravinsky or Mozart or Ravel.

— Alexandre Desplat

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

— David Del Tredici