I just have to take my chances like any other composer.
Gordon Getty
I'm still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.
Dhani Harrison
Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.
Michel Hazanavicius
If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
Charles Ives
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
Arthur Honegger
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Mitch Leigh
I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.
Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.
Anton Rubinstein
I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
Alfred Schnittke