If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
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It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
I'm not an intellectual composer.
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.
I'm a composer, man.
As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to write about anybody I don't care about.
There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.
All music has to speak in some form or other.
I don't really call myself a composer.