Believe Quote by Helene Grimaud

It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to…

— Daniel Barenboim

What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.

— Twyla Tharp

One of the more distant concerns is with the visual interpretation of the music. I find it fascinating but I don't always particularly get…

— Squarepusher

I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code,…

— Yo-Yo Ma

Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.

— Charles Hazlewood

There's not one thing in particular that influences my music, but I write about what I know. It's based in personal experience. That's not…

— Holly Golightly

The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

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

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

— Nobuo Uematsu

I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great,…

— Jessye Norman

I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart.

— Bradley Joseph

It's very important to me that I at least know the history of the music.

— Trombone Shorty