Composer Quote by Ernest Newman

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

— Ernest Newman

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart…

— Ernest Newman

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

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

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

It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

— Leonard Bernstein

Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the…

— Virgil Thomson

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

— Igor Stravinsky

The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth.

— Claudio Monteverdi

I can admire music where you feel the composer has everything organized and perfectly shaped, but it doesn't touch me. I like to feel…

— Stephen Hough

“The really inspired person is never inspired: he's always inspired: he doesn't go looking for inspiration and he doesn't get up in arms about…

— Raymond Queneau

There is no doubt that even the greatest musical geniuses have sometimes worked without inspiration. This guest (inspiration) does not always respond to the…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky