There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't really call myself a composer.
I consider myself a composer.
There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.
In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer.
I just have to take my chances like any other composer.
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.
I'm a composer, man.
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.
I think a composer is always interested in his last work.