Born Quote by Leo Ornstein

A person can learn technically to orchestrate. But the stuff it takes to make a really terrific arrangement, that can't be taught, just as…

— Richard Carpenter

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and…

— John Corigliano

Historically, there is a fight between the sound designer and the composer. You see them in the mixing room and they're always fighting because…

— Alfonso Cuaron

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

When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status.…

— Aaron Copland

Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop…

— Hilary Hahn

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

— Devi Sri Prasad

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

— Aristotle

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

The model of a composer.

— Benjamin Britten

I don't really call myself a composer.

— Caroline Shaw

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