Composer Quote by Igor Stravinsky

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

— John Philip Sousa

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

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

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's…

— Frederic Chopin

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

“It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that…

— Louisa May Alcott

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

I think no composer knows he's creating a hit until the audience gives it a nod.

— Amaal Mallik

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

— Gustav Mahler

Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit alone on…

— Raymond Scott

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

— Gustav Mahler