Composer Quote by H. L. Mencken

What is so beautiful about a composer and a lyricist is that their job is to push a story along and not halt it.

— Keala Settle

“Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Composers were warned not to strain the attention of their audience, as though we had not at our disposal different degrees of attention, among…

— Marcel Proust

As a composer, every project begins with either a blank sequence or a blank manuscript and for the first couple of days you cover…

— Lorne Balfe

What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone…

— Charles Mingus

There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching…

— David Bowie

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

— Brian Ferneyhough

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one…

— Aphex Twin

How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal…

— David Mitchell

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

It takes lot of years for a composer to make a name.

— Amaal Mallik

The model of a composer.

— Benjamin Britten