Composer Quote by Kurt Masur

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

If we want to share the message of the composers, to give good things back to humanity, we have to dig deep while we…

— Andris Nelsons

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

— Gustav Mahler

I can admire music where you feel the composer has everything organized and perfectly shaped, but it doesn't touch me. I like to feel…

— Stephen Hough

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

— Kate Smith

It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to…

— Daniel Barenboim

It’s really strange, but they speak to me — the notes and the chords. So when I hear other people’s music, I can feel…

— Yanni

I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He…

— Ayn Rand

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the…

— Fred Frith

As a composer, I only give directors tunes I'm happy with.

— Vijay Antony

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go…

— Samuel Barber