Composer Quote by Paul Lansky

Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was…

— Terry Riley

I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition.

— Julia Holter

I wrote my first song when I was twelve on the piano.

— Rachael Yamagata

The thing I realised about composition is, we remember most composers for four bars of music. Four singable bars of music. Pretty much any…

— Bryce Dessner

I started with very tonal 19th-century music because I wanted to be a violinist as a child. So this was my first music, and…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a…

— Robert Wyatt

Musical revolutions, I don't know how many I've been through.

— Robbie Robertson

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the…

— Ennio Morricone

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the…

— Ennio Morricone

Stravinskys music, hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous, was now the favorite of my postadolescence. In a different way it achieved the hard,…

— George Antheil

I was teaching myself notes from three and then by seven I'd figured out how to play some chords, and at school I used…

— Ella Henderson

There was a time when, for anybody between the ages of 15 and 25, music was one, two and three.

— Jimmy Iovine