Belly Quote by Michael Hersch

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

“It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that…

— Louisa May Alcott

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

— Devi Sri Prasad

I consider myself a composer.

— Timbaland

“I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he…

— Joseph Haydn

“the act of vomiting deserves your respect. It's an orchestral event of the gut.”

— Mary Roach

I feel I am fortunate that I could become a composer.

— Mohan Sithara

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

— Richard Meale

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

— Leonard Bernstein

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

Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and pushing himself…

— Rodney Mullen

I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.

— Mitch Leigh