Appreciate Quote by Marc-Andre Hamelin

It's really been enlightening for me to work with composers because I used to think that everything in the music was exactly what the…

— Hilary Hahn

It's the vision of the composer that we have to determine, and not the absolute mathematical adherence of the score. In my experience, there…

— Marc-Andre Hamelin

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

— Gustav Mahler

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

— David Del Tredici

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

— Ned Rorem

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

“You should all know how to read music. It's as basic to understanding the composer's reaction as knowing how to read words on a…

— Jennifer Laurens

I don't really call myself a composer.

— Caroline Shaw

A lot of the so-called systems composers have this thing that the system is always right. You don't fiddle with it at all. Well,…

— Brian Eno

When you work with a good composer, you don't tell him what to write. If he knows your playing, he will do what he…

— Stan Getz

Composers combine notes, that's all.

— Igor Stravinsky

I'm not really a professional composer; I just compose now and then when someone asks me to.

— Stephen Hough