Composer Quote by Howard Dietz

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

— Gustav Mahler

The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America.

— Gail Zappa

I think the work process' - composers do not get enough time to make a good song. That's the one thing which needs to…

— Amaal Mallik

I think the reason composers aren't valued is because many act as servants rather than music directors. Instead of taking a stand based on…

— M. Jayachandran

Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all,…

— Claude Debussy

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

— Igor Stravinsky

It's so interesting, you know, whenever you read the accounts of composers playing their own music, that they had very different priorities than performers.…

— Helene Grimaud

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

— Judy Holliday

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

— Gustav Mahler

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

— Harold Prince

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

— Ned Rorem

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

— Aaron Copland