Combine Quote by Igor Stravinsky

Composers are very individual creatures.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

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

— Gustav Mahler

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

Notes are part of life for any composer for hire. There's no way around it. I think anyone who has done even a small…

— Christophe Beck

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

— John Cage

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

— Ken Burns

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and…

— Benjamin Britten

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak

— Michael Bolton

I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra.

— Henry Mancini

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

— Ken Hill

A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express…

— Howard Shore

I don't think that because l'm a composer I only have to compose music.

— Joe Hisaishi