Composer Quote by Gustav Mahler

It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit alone on…

— Raymond Scott

The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else than a…

— George Gershwin

When the music arrives in my mind, it gives me the direction and the form at the same time. It's integrated into the music…

— John McLaughlin

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated…

— Hanns Eisler

If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing…

— Jean-Jacques Nattiez

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later…

— Igor Stravinsky

Music, in its clearest and simplest form, can be a catalyst to thought, but that's about it.

— Ed Kowalczyk

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper…

— David Ogden Stiers

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

The model of a composer.

— Benjamin Britten

“Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic.”

— Toba Beta