Attention Quote by Gail Zappa

Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.

— Scott Ian

Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and…

— Gail Zappa

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

— Ned Rorem

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

“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

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 consider myself a composer.

— Timbaland

People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction…

— Brian Eno

I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.

— Mitch Leigh

Somebody under 30, if the name Frank Zappa came up, they would just say, "Who?" To me that didn't sit well, because I felt…

— Dweezil Zappa

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from…

— Milton Babbitt