Composers Quote by David Del Tredici

The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America.

— Gail Zappa

I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

— Samuel Barber

American music is always best when it comes from a mixture of things.

— Rhiannon Giddens

Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

— Carlisle Floyd

The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins.

— Hans von Bulow

I've always said there aren't great composers- there are great songs.

— Vicente Fernandez

Composers are very individual creatures.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

— John Philip Sousa

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

I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

— Ken Hill