Capacity Quote by Sergei Rachmaninoff

I'm really drawn to West Coast composers and I think it has a little something to do with looking across the Pacific instead of…

— Mark Morris

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

— Michala Petri

What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.

— Robert Moog

When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on with its…

— Brian Eno

It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

— Bela Bartok

Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.

— Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us to search…

— Khalil Gibran

In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.

— Hoagy Carmichael

The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take…

— A. R. Rahman

There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's…

— Evelyn Glennie

Men have been in the forefront of music for centuries, and they have written glorious music, loved and appreciated by many. In some ways,…

— Barbara Harbach

As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach. I love Paganini, too, the Italian composer…

— Matt Schulze

Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.

— George Gershwin

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

— Judy Holliday

There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There…

— J. J. Johnson