Effort Quote by David Bowie

Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable,…

— David Bowie

It's funny because as a composer, you want to hear your songs live on. I think a lot of times people will create a…

— Christian Scott

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

— Harold Prince

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

— Charles Hazlewood

Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all,…

— Claude Debussy

The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music. Then, the music speaks through…

— Mstislav Rostropovich

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

How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal…

— David Mitchell

What is so beautiful about a composer and a lyricist is that their job is to push a story along and not halt it.

— Keala Settle

If we want to share the message of the composers, to give good things back to humanity, we have to dig deep while we…

— Andris Nelsons

If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

— Ned Rorem

Musical talent is maybe something, but there are no unmusical people. You're moved by music. It's total rubbish to say, "Oh, I'm unmusical." It…

— Igor Levit