| "There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead." »Arthur Honegger |
| "Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down." »Hector Berlioz |
| "I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge." »Igor Stravinsky |
| "I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge." »Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky |
| "I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer." »Leonard Bernstein |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |