Believe Quote by Krzysztof Penderecki

Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I think that's…

— Martin Fowler

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

— Ned Rorem

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

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 attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.

— Alfred Schnittke

I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing…

— Antonio Damasio

I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.

— Alan Dean Foster

The people of your century no longer require the service of composers. A composer is as useful to a person in a jogging suit…

— Frank Zappa

Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may…

— John Blacking

Composers are very individual creatures.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

The new generation of musicians is writing music on computers, and this is very sad because the quality of songwriting has crashed and dived.…

— Joe Walsh