Language Quote by Gustav Mahler

“It was clear that the composer no longer consoled himself with the thought that music could express everything and did not require verbal commentary.”

— Solomon Volkov

If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

— Ned Rorem

One cannot say with words what music says without them.

— Steven Feld

“Because music expresses all the things people can’t say, but are impossible to keep quiet.”

— Vi Keeland

“You may be sure that a question which requires music for an answer can't be put into words. ”

— David Lindsay

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

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

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

— Leo Ornstein

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Gustav Mahler

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

— Michala Petri

As a musician myself, I wouldn't be confident if I received some other composers' song, because I choose to express myself through the music…

— G-Dragon