Composer Quote by Milton Babbitt

The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

— Arthur Honegger

If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

— Ned Rorem

In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer.

— Bob Fosse

What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone…

— Charles Mingus

I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code,…

— Yo-Yo Ma

Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he not been…

— Gail Zappa

If music is to continue to support the livelihoods of artists, it cannot be taken without the permission of artists.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may…

— John Blacking

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

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

— Gustav Mahler

“What is the use of composing if it is to confine the product within the precinct of the concert or the solitude of listening…

— Roland Barthes

I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen