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I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition.

— Julia Holter

I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my own music.…

— Cassie Steele

I always wanted to be a film composer. So very early on I started collecting soundtracks and paying attention to how movie music works.…

— Alexandre Desplat

I started out doing musicals.

— Zooey Deschanel

I didn't know music either, but I became a composer. Acting too is like that. It's like cooking for your siblings when your mother…

— Vijay Antony

Around eighth grade I decided I wanted to be a composer and that's what I went to college for. Just a few years back,…

— Joanna Newsom

Music was the first thing I did where I was naturally talented.

— Miranda Lambert

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

— Ivor Novello

Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in…

— Mose Allison

I'm a composer. I know nothing about money and commercial stuff. I just write music.

— Vangelis

I started with very tonal 19th-century music because I wanted to be a violinist as a child. So this was my first music, and…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I had to have a lot of jobs until I was supporting myself through music, but I knew that those jobs were all leading…

— Jason Mraz