Back Quote by Wadada Leo Smith

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

— Devi Sri Prasad

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

— Richard Meale

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

— Mitch Leigh

I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing…

— Shane McCrae

Around eighth grade I decided I wanted to be a composer and that's what I went to college for. Just a few years back,…

— Joanna Newsom

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

— Ornette Coleman

I was composing before I realised I was a composer. It came more or less naturally. There were a couple of old ladies lived…

— Richard Meale

I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition.

— Julia Holter

At the age of 11, I started composing and my first composition was sung by my father.

— Bappi Lahiri

I had no idea I was gonna be a songwriter, because I was too young to know my own evolution. I started playing the…

— Amanda Shires

I became an artist because I couldn't become anything else.

— Mati Klarwein

I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.

— Andre Previn