I don't really call myself a composer.
Caroline Shaw
If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.
Steven Spielberg
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
Richard Strauss
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky
I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
Yann Tiersen
I consider myself a composer.
Timbaland
I've always been a composer dependent on texts.
David Del Tredici
I think of myself as a film composer.
John Williams
I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.
Sarah Brightman
I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
Gavin Bryars