Beings Quote by Hanns Eisler

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

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

Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the…

— Virgil Thomson

“because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion. They are composed like music”

— Kundera Milan

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

— Ned Rorem

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

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may…

— John Blacking

All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters of their…

— Corinne Heline

Music is an intrinsic part of life; therefore, it is important to transport different forms of artistic expression, science, and mathematics into compositions.

— Ludovico Einaudi

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and…

— Alban Berg

Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

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