Everything Quote by Hilary Hahn

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

— Ned Rorem

Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music…

— Robert Lopez

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

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

— Leo Ornstein

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like…

— Danny Elfman

Every composer understands and uses the system of notation differently, and that's what makes you appreciate the trouble they go through in doing so.

— Marc-Andre Hamelin

To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.

— Gustav Mahler

I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally.

— Richard Meale

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

It’s really strange, but they speak to me — the notes and the chords. So when I hear other people’s music, I can feel…

— Yanni

When you think about a composer you know like Wagner or Pier Boulez or something like that most of the issues a composer is…

— DJ Spooky

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