Composer Quote by Ned Rorem

I don't really call myself a composer.

— Caroline Shaw

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

Being a composer is a little like being a painter. Sometimes you hire a painter because you want a beautiful painting for your wall,…

— Bear McCreary

The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

— Arthur Honegger

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

— Gustav Mahler

I'm still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

— Dhani Harrison

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated…

— Hanns Eisler

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

Im still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

— Dhani Harrison

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

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

— Richard Meale