America Quote by John Philip Sousa

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

— Gail Zappa

Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse,…

— David Del Tredici

But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

— Samuel Barber

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

— Gavin Bryars

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

— Arjun Janya

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

— Harold Prince

The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too,…

— Antonin Dvorak

I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out…

— John Philip Sousa

Composers are very individual creatures.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

— Vicente Fernandez