When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.

- Andres Segovia

Composers are always going back to the past.

- Anne Dudley

Composers are not all good conductors.

- Anton Seidl

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

Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

- Carlisle Floyd

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

- Enya

Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.

- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

- Gavin Bryars

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

- Howard Dietz

Brahms is one of my all-time favorite composers.

- Itzhak Perlman

Sincere composers believe in God.

- John Philip Sousa

I have tremendous respect for film composers.

- John Corigliano

All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.

- James Tenney

What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.

- Robert Moog

I'm blessed to be working with wizards like Vishal Bhardwaj as well as many young composers.

- Sukhwinder Singh

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

- Thomas Beecham