Always Quote by Vicente Fernandez

I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and…

— Maurice Ravel

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

— John Philip Sousa

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

— Pepe Romero

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

— Harold Prince

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

Composers are very individual creatures.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

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

— John Edensor Littlewood

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

— Michala Petri

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

— Michael Tilson Thomas

Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer…

— Clement Greenberg

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.

— Aaron Copland

The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America.

— Gail Zappa