Composer Quote by Michael Tilson Thomas

When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their…

— Dave Brubeck

My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to…

— Patti LuPone

Tom Kitt aside - he's in his own category with me, of course - Stephen Sondheim is one of my all-time favorite composers.

— Alice Ripley

For years, my favorite composers had been Monteverdi and Bach. Then I began to rediscover the 19th century, see it from another perspective.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression.

— Camille Saint-Saens

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

— John Edensor Littlewood

Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I…

— Wallace Shawn

Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there…

— Karen DeCrow

Fortunately, I started very young, so I read music very well. And my favorite composers to play are Brahms and Mozart.

— Condoleezza Rice

If somebody says, 'Well, what are your favorite composers?' really, what they are saying is, 'What are your favorite composers apart from Bach?' Because…

— Max Richter

But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

I always loved the motion picture scores and the great film composers like Elmer Bernstein.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.

— George Gershwin

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

— Judy Holliday

There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There…

— J. J. Johnson