Always Quote by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

...in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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

I like to see myself as a composer first and only then as a singer.

— D. Imman

There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a…

— Robert Wyatt

The composers know what they want from you. So as a vocalist you have got to trust them and surrender yourself to their vision.

— Neeti Mohan

I have too much work as a composer to concentrate on singing.

— Himesh Reshammiya

It's a myth that you need to understand all the ins and outs of music. The ideal scenario is you have a conceptual, directorial…

— Henry Jackman

Performing was always something that I actually used to do before I settled in the studio as a composer.

— Ramin Djawadi

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

— Devi Sri Prasad

You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and…

— Elvis Costello

I don't really call myself a composer.

— Caroline Shaw

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

— John Philip Sousa