Age Quote by Gunther Schuller

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

— Mitch Leigh

I consider myself a composer.

— Timbaland

I don't really call myself a composer.

— Caroline Shaw

I like to see myself as a composer first and only then as a singer.

— D. Imman

I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I often wonder if I was destined to be a composer. I think I decided and I followed my star.

— Peter Sculthorpe

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

— Richard Meale

I wanted to be a composer before anything else. And my sister was listening to Led Zeppelin in the other room! When I heard…

— Steve Vai

I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition.

— Julia Holter

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

— Ivor Novello

To be a composer, you have to be a die-hard music lover - which I am.

— Devi Sri Prasad

I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.

— Charles Mingus