Composer Quote by George Gershwin

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

— Michala Petri

It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.

— Boots Riley

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

— Ezra Koenig

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

— Yo-Yo Ma

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Composers are very individual creatures.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

— Robert Wyatt

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

Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this…

— Louise Talma

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

— Steve Lacy

A Composer who hears sounds will try to find a notation for sounds. One who has ideas will find one that expresses his ideas,…

— Cornelius Cardew

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the…

— Robert Morris