Believe Quote by John Philip Sousa

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

All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters of their…

— Corinne Heline

I consider myself a composer.

— Timbaland

The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

— Ernest Newman

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later…

— Igor Stravinsky

I don't really call myself a composer.

— Caroline Shaw

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

— Ernest Newman

Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the…

— Virgil Thomson

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

— Devi Sri Prasad

The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth.

— Claudio Monteverdi

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

— Igor Stravinsky

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

— Gustav Mahler