Composer Quotes at BrainyQuote

Author	Birth - Death
David Amram	1930 -
Beth Anderson	-
George Antheil	1900 - 1959
Malcolm Arnold	1921 -
Robert Ashley	1930 -
Kevin Ayers	1944 -
Milton Babbitt	1916 -
Johann Sebastian Bach	1685 - 1750
Burt Bacharach	1928 -
David Baker	-
Samuel Barber	1910 - 1981
John Barry	1933 -
Bela Bartok	1881 - 1945
Thomas Beecham	1879 - 1961
Ludwig van Beethoven	1770 - 1827
Richard Rodney Bennett	1936 -
Alban Berg	1885 - 1935
Arthur Berger	1912 - 2003
Luciano Berio	1925 - 2003
Hector Berlioz	1803 - 1869
Leonard Bernstein	1918 - 1990
Elmer Bernstein	1922 - 2004
William Billings	1746 - 1800
Harrison Birtwistle	1934 -
Georges Bizet	1838 - 1875
Eubie Blake	1883 - 1983
William Bolcom	1938 -
Alexander Borodin	1833 - 1887
Andre Boucourechliev	1925 - 1997
Pierre Boulez	1925 -
Paul Bowles	1910 - 1999
Anne Boyd	1946 -
Johannes Brahms	1833 - 1897
Benjamin Britten	1913 - 1976
Big Bill Broonzy	1893 - 1958
Earle Brown	1926 - 2002
Gavin Bryars	1943 -
Harold Budd	1936 -
Carter Burwell	1955 -
Irving Caesar	1895 - 1996
John Cage	1912 - 1992
Thomas Campion	1567 - 1620
Hoagy Carmichael	1899 - 1981
Elliott Carter	1908 -
Eugene Chadbourne	1951 -
Frederic Chopin	1810 - 1849
Cy Coleman	1929 - 2004
Aaron Copland	1900 - 1990
John Corigliano	1938 -
George Crumb	1929 -
Peter Maxwell Davies	1934 -
Anthony Davis	1951 -
Carl Davis	1936 -
Claude Debussy	1862 - 1918
Leo Delibes	1836 - 1891
Frederick Delius	1862 - 1934
Antal Dorati	1906 - 1988
Anne Dudley	1956 -
Vernon Duke	1903 - 1969
Antonin Dvorak	1841 - 1904
Hanns Eisler	1898 - 1962
Edward Elgar	1857 - 1934
Morton Feldman	1926 - 1987
Brian Ferneyhough	1943 -
Luc Ferrari	1929 - 2005
Gerald Finzi	1901 - 1956
Carlisle Floyd	1926 -
Lukas Foss	1922 -
Fred Frith	1949 -
George Gershwin	1898 - 1937
Orlando Gibbons	1583 - 1625
William Gilbert	1836 - 1911
Umberto Giordano	1867 - 1948
Philip Glass	1937 -
Mikhail Glinka	1804 - 1857
Jerry Goldsmith	1929 - 2004
Charles Gounod	1818 - 1893
Edvard Grieg	1843 - 1907
Marvin Hamlisch	1944 - 2012
Lou Harrison	1917 - 2003
Karl Amadeus Hartmann	1905 - 1963
Joseph Haydn	1732 - 1809
Jerry Herman	1933 -
Bernard Herrmann	1911 - 1975
Alun Hoddinott	1929 - 2008
Rupert Holmes	1947 -
Arthur Honegger	1892 - 1955
Richard Hovey	1864 - 1900
Alan Hovhaness	1911 - 2000
Bart Howard	1915 - 2004
Johann Nepomuk Hummel	1778 - 1837
Jerry Hunt	1943 -
Jacques Ibert	1890 - 1962
Charles Ives	1874 - 1954
Maurice Jarre	1924 -
Keith Jarrett	1945 -
Zoltan Kodaly	1882 - 1967
Barbara Kolb	1939 -
Erich Wolfgang Korngold	1897 - 1957
Abel Korzeniowski	1972 -
Fritz Kreisler	1875 - 1962
Burton Lane	1912 - 1997
Jonathan Larson	1960 - 1996
Andrew Law	1749 - 1821
Michel Legrand	1932 -
Franz Lehar	1870 - 1948
Ruggero Leoncavallo	1857 - 1919
Oscar Levant	1906 - 1972
Gyorgy Ligeti	1923 - 2006
Franz Liszt	1811 - 1886
Jay Livingston	1915 - 2001
George Lloyd	1913 - 1998
Frederick Loewe	1904 - 1988
Witold Lutoslawski	1913 - 1994
Gustav Mahler	1860 - 1911
Benedetto Marcello	1686 - 1739
Pietro Mascagni	1863 - 1945
Jules Massenet	1842 - 1912
Felix Mendelssohn	1809 - 1847
Gian Carlo Menotti	1911 - 2007
Olivier Messiaen	1908 - 1992
Giacomo Meyerbeer	1791 - 1864
Darius Milhaud	1892 - 1974
Roscoe Mitchell	1940 -
Dimitri Mitropoulos	1896 - 1960
Meredith Monk	1942 -
Claudio Monteverdi	1567 - 1643
Ennio Morricone	1928 -
Modest Mussorgsky	1839 - 1881
Alfred Newman	1900 - 1970
Alex North	1910 - 1991
Michael Nyman	1944 -
Carl Orff	1895 - 1982
Leo Ornstein	1892 - 2002
Joseph Parry	1841 - 1903
Arvo Part	1935 -
Walter Piston	1894 - 1976
Cole Porter	1893 - 1964
John Powell	-
Sergei Prokofiev	1891 - 1953
Giacomo Puccini	1858 - 1924
Jean Philippe Rameau	1683 - 1764
Maurice Ravel	1875 - 1937
Thomas Ravenscroft	1582 - 1635
Max Reger	1873 - 1916
Steve Reich	1936 -
Terry Riley	1935 -
Leo Robin	1900 - 1984
Richard Rodgers	1902 - 1979
Sigmund Romberg	1887 - 1951
Landon Ronald	1873 - 1938
Ned Rorem	1923 -
Gioachino Rossini	1792 - 1868
Aulis Sallinen	1935 -
Erik Satie	1866 - 1925
Pierre Schaeffer	1910 - 1995
Florent Schmitt	1870 - 1958
Alfred Schnittke	1934 - 1998
Arnold Schoenberg	1874 - 1951
Franz Schubert	1797 - 1828
Gunther Schuller	1925 -
Klaus Schulze	1947 -
Robert Schumann	1810 - 1856
Arthur Schwartz	1900 - 1984
Alexander Scriabin	1872 - 1915
Roger Sessions	1896 - 1985
Dimitri Shostakovich	1906 - 1975
Jean Sibelius	1865 - 1957
Stephen Sondheim	1930 -
Karlheinz Stockhausen	1928 - 2007
Richard Strauss	1864 - 1949
Igor Stravinsky	1882 - 1971
Billy Strayhorn	1915 - 1967
Arthur Sullivan	1842 - 1900
George Szell	1897 - 1970
Toru Takemitsu	1930 - 1996
James Tenney	1934 -
Virgil Thomson	1896 - 1989
Michael Tippett	1905 - 1998
Michael Torke	1961 -
David Del Tredici	1937 -
Nobuo Uematsu	1959 -
Edgard Varese	1883 - 1965
Giuseppe Verdi	1813 - 1901
Tomas Luis de Victoria	1548 - 1611
Richard Wagner	1813 - 1883
Bruno Walter	1876 - 1962
Peter Warlock	1894 - 1930
Harry Warren	1893 - 1981
Jimmy Webb	1946 -
Andrew Lloyd Webber	1948 -
Carl Maria von Weber	1786 - 1826
Kurt Weill	1900 - 1950
Samuel Wesley	1766 - 1837
Ralph Vaughan Williams	1872 - 1958
John Williams	1932 -
Malcolm Williamson	1931 - 2003
Sandy Wilson	1924 -
La Monte Young	1935 -
John Zorn	1953 -