Attitude Quote by John Blacking

In our profession someone can be very brilliant and acquire total technical mastery. Yet in the last resort, the only thing that really counts…

— Herbert von Karajan

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

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

— Gail Zappa

In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor…

— Robert Shaw

To be a composer, you have to be a die-hard music lover - which I am.

— Devi Sri Prasad

Our job as composers becomes easy when directors have a good knowledge of music and know exactly what they want.

— Arjun Janya

Composers are very individual creatures.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

— Pepe Romero

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

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

— Aaron Copland

Music is part of being human.

— Anonymous