Certain Quote by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

— Michala Petri

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

— George Gershwin

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

— David Del Tredici

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

— John Philip Sousa

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it…

— Jane Campion

To compose is to remember music that has never been written.

— Robert Schumann

There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the…

— Bill Conti

I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally.

— Richard Meale

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

Music was not invented by the composer, but found.

— Nadia Boulanger

Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean…

— Giuseppe Verdi

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

— Ken Burns