Composer Quote by Ned Rorem

A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself.…

— Yo-Yo Ma

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

— Brian Eno

Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken.…

— Henry David Thoreau

When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking in the…

— Mike Svob

“A single composition can have so many meanings depending on the person playing.”

— Penelope Douglas

Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture…

— Henri Matisse

The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else than a…

— George Gershwin

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

— Richard Meale

Composition is interesting because, in a sense, you always have to let it go. Unless you're a true composer/performer, you're always sending a PDF…

— Nico Muhly

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

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

— Gustav Mahler

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

— Brian Ferneyhough