Composer Quote by Edgard Varese

I was not influenced by any artists.

— Andrae Crouch

I suppose I was affected by raw sounds and timbres more than a lot of other composers. Had I been involved with orchestral composing,…

— Wendy Carlos

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

— Nobuo Uematsu

I'm not an intellectual composer.

— Les Baxter

I was not a musician of any kind.

— Monica Barbaro

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

— Richard Meale

What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.

— Robert Moog

I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a…

— Frederick Lenz

That's it really, at the moment I wouldn't say I was influenced by any one thing in particular.

— Peter Hook

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

— Michala Petri

I studied ethnomusicology for a while, but I don't think that really influenced my music.

— Christian Fennesz

I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.

— Bebe Neuwirth