Aesthetics Quote by Leo Ornstein

The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else than a…

— George Gershwin

Composers are very individual creatures.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

It's so interesting, you know, whenever you read the accounts of composers playing their own music, that they had very different priorities than performers.…

— Helene Grimaud

It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

— Leonard Bernstein

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

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

A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express…

— Howard Shore

Each composer has their own language, and I try to meet the challenges, even if at first sight, they appear impossible.

— Michala Petri

As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer…

— Darren Criss

I don't really call myself a composer.

— Caroline Shaw

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles,…

— George Crumb

I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally.

— Richard Meale