Composer Quotes

I am but an architectural composer.

Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist.

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.

I'm not an intellectual composer.

I write arrangements. I'm sort of a wannabe composer.

I'm not an architectural composer.

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.

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

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.

I just have to take my chances like any other composer.

A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.

Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.

Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

I consider myself a composer.

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.