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I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.

I don't really call myself a composer.

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.

I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.

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.