Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
We composers are at least as significant as the stars who make 14 million or 15 million. You just don't see us.
Composers are always going back to the past.
I can say, with a little arrogance, that I could be an actor, a cameraman, a writer, but composers are the most mysterious people.
Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.
Composers are not all good conductors.
My favourite composers are Vishal Shekhar, AR Rahman, Shankar Ehsaan-Loy.
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
I've seen composers work on 30 films at one go. So, eight or even 10 albums in a year is no big deal.
I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.
Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.
I think TV composers don't get enough credit. I really think it is one of the hardest jobs.
I have always loved composers who have been connected with folk traditions of popular music.
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.
Sincere composers believe in God.
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.
Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors.
It is the responsibility of music composers to add some classical music elements into their songs to make the music genre popular.
Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.
As improvisers, we're acting as composers in front of people.
It's interesting composers can be very funny ducks.
Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.
My advice to composers is, 'Try to reach 90, and everyone will love you.'
There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.