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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

When I was done with high school, I knew that music was really important to me and I knew I didn't want to be…

— Tod Machover

I thought I was gonna get a doctorate in composition or be a composer and be at a university for the rest of my…

— Julia Holter

I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a note. But…

— Conrad Aiken

I wanted to be a composer.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'

— Ornette Coleman

I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.

— Charles Mingus

Around eighth grade I decided I wanted to be a composer and that's what I went to college for. Just a few years back,…

— Joanna Newsom

I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what…

— Laura Mvula

I was a piano performance major at USC. I left before I graduated because I realized at some point I wasn't going to be…

— James Newton Howard

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

— Ivor Novello

I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what…

— Giorgio Moroder