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I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

— David Del Tredici

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Usually composers need a reason to write. I need a deadline.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

“a poet must be a composer of plots rather than of verses,”

— Aristotle

I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing…

— Shane McCrae

Composers now just don't have the depth of inspiration for melody. Most of the lyrics of the pop songs you hear today are repetitious.…

— Rudy Vallee

I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and…

— Maurice Ravel

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

— Ken Burns

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

I've always said there aren't great composers- there are great songs.

— Vicente Fernandez

Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.

— John Dos Passos

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

— Ned Rorem