Always Quote by Jeffrey Tate

“(These younger composers were generally male, but then composers were almost exclusively male. Even the female composers were almost exclusively male.)”

— Wesley Stace

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 pianist is a painter of music”

— Goitsemang Mvula

There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.

— Thomas Beecham

I'm not an intellectual composer.

— Les Baxter

In fact although I have studied in a Conservatory the classical piano, I do not consider myself a classical pianist.

— Richard Clayderman

I think there are very few people that I would give the title of genius to, really, but Beethoven unquestionably is one of them.

— Stephen Hough

Composers are very individual creatures.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.

— Chrisette Michele

My interactions with musicians have been simply that: interactions with musicians. Issues of gender, or anything else beyond the music-making, have in my experience…

— Michael Hersch

My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.

— Atticus Ross

“Her repertoire ran mainly from the late Romantics, Schumann and Mendelssohn, to Poulenc, Ravel, Bartók, and Prokofiev.”

— Haruki Murakami