Colleagues Quote by Hilary Hahn

I'm not an intellectual composer.

— Les Baxter

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

You never know what you're going to share. I can play, I know what is written - the marks, the things the composer tells…

— Igor Levit

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the…

— Fred Frith

You can never learn enough about music.

— Mitski

Our job as composers becomes easy when directors have a good knowledge of music and know exactly what they want.

— Arjun Janya

In music, you learn a lot of things when you don't know what you're doing.

— Eric Bachmann

To be a composer, you have to be a die-hard music lover - which I am.

— Devi Sri Prasad

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.

— Aaron Copland

I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the…

— Steven Price

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

— David Del Tredici