Alone Quote by 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

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

— S. J. Perelman

There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a…

— Robert Wyatt

Human warmth is perhaps the most lacking in a composer who lives his life in a recording studio.

— Fabio Frizzi

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one…

— Aphex Twin

I started out being quite an eclectic composer, not quite sure where to fit in. I tried my hand a bit at everything, except…

— C418

I am a very choosy guy, sometimes it gets very irritating for composers. If I don't feel it, then I am not able to…

— Jubin Nautiyal

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

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

— John Edensor Littlewood

Composers are very individual creatures.

— Krzysztof Penderecki