Composer Quote by Gail Zappa

To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.

— Gustav Mahler

Composers combine notes, that's all.

— Igor Stravinsky

Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

— Howard Dietz

According to me, one composer should do one film.

— Jeet Gannguli

When you work with a good composer, you don't tell him what to write. If he knows your playing, he will do what he…

— Stan Getz

Every composer understands and uses the system of notation differently, and that's what makes you appreciate the trouble they go through in doing so.

— Marc-Andre Hamelin

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

— Gustav Mahler

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

— Leo Ornstein

If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

I think the work process' - composers do not get enough time to make a good song. That's the one thing which needs to…

— Amaal Mallik

I don't think that because l'm a composer I only have to compose music.

— Joe Hisaishi