Composer Quote by Leonard Bernstein

I don't think that because l'm a composer I only have to compose music.

— Joe Hisaishi

Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music…

— Robert Lopez

When you think about a composer you know like Wagner or Pier Boulez or something like that most of the issues a composer is…

— DJ Spooky

I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots…

— Ornette Coleman

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'

— Ornette Coleman

I think, as a composer, pressure should be something that makes you better.

— Ludwig Goransson

I think no composer knows he's creating a hit until the audience gives it a nod.

— Amaal Mallik

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

I think as a composer, you need to have enough of a reputation so that people know if they give you the budget you're…

— Bear McCreary

Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.

— Leonard Bernstein

Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear…

— Bertrand Russell

This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth now, will…

— Mark Akenside