I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen..

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

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those..

In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers..

The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance..

The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins..

As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines..

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong..

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie..

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

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what ….

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 workin….

Freddie Bryant is a brilliant young guitarist and composer..

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

Composers combine notes, that's all..

Both costume and fashion are about telling a story, except that in a ballet the story has already been written by the composer or the librettist..

I'm not an architectural composer..

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

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

I think a composer is always interested in his last work..

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