Challenges Quote by Robert Wyatt

Performing was always something that I actually used to do before I settled in the studio as a composer.

— Ramin Djawadi

That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So…

— John Zorn

You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and…

— Elvis Costello

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

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

Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

I started out being quite an eclectic composer, not quite sure where to fit in. I tried my hand a bit at everything, except…

— C418

...in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

I've always said there aren't great composers- there are great songs.

— Vicente Fernandez

Every now and then, as a composer and producer, it's important to write music for yourself.

— Ludwig Goransson

I like to see myself as a composer first and only then as a singer.

— D. Imman

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

— John Edensor Littlewood