Age Quote by George Gershwin

Composers are very individual creatures.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop…

— Hilary Hahn

[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where…

— Leonard Cohen

I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.

— Kip Winger

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it…

— Jane Campion

When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of deconstruction of…

— Hamid Drake

I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally.

— Richard Meale

I think we have a lot in common with classical composers of the 19th century, although I'm not claiming to have their intelligence. They…

— Matt Bellamy

Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as…

— Jonny Greenwood

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That…

— Robert Morris

All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters of their…

— Corinne Heline

The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have…

— Sergei Rachmaninoff