American Quote by Samuel Barber

It is a great feeling to be called an international composer in the true sense.

— Anu Malik

I feel I am fortunate that I could become a composer.

— Mohan Sithara

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

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

— Mitch Leigh

It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.

— Morton Gould

I consider myself a composer.

— Timbaland

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 can admire music where you feel the composer has everything organized and perfectly shaped, but it doesn't touch me. I like to feel…

— Stephen Hough

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

— Devi Sri Prasad

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

— Gavin Bryars

I'm more American than anything else. I grew up in China, but I was fulfilled at a young age by American music. It was…

— Peter Max

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

— D. Imman