Chords Quote by Richard Rodney Bennett

Do you know it took me 27 years to understand the C major chord on the piano?

— Ilaiyaraaja

To be a composer, you have to be a die-hard music lover - which I am.

— Devi Sri Prasad

You've got to be an editor in order to be a good composer.

— Henry Mancini

I don't really call myself a composer.

— Caroline Shaw

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

— Richard Meale

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

I consider myself a composer.

— Timbaland

I often wonder if I was destined to be a composer. I think I decided and I followed my star.

— Peter Sculthorpe

I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.

— Mitch Leigh

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'

— Ornette Coleman

I wanted to be a composer.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what…

— Giorgio Moroder