Air Quote by Frank Zappa

The model of a composer.

— Benjamin Britten

I don't really call myself a composer.

— Caroline Shaw

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

— Devi Sri Prasad

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated…

— Hanns Eisler

I consider myself a composer.

— Timbaland

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

— Morton Feldman

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’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that…

— Louisa May Alcott

Composer” is a word which here means “a person who sits in a room, muttering and humming and figuring out what notes the orchestra…

— Anonymous

I think of all music as existing in the substance of the air itself. It is the composer's task to order and make sense…

— Libby Larsen

If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

— Ned Rorem

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later…

— Igor Stravinsky