Famous quotes by Composers

"Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself, your own errors"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer"

Richard Strauss, Composer

"Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries"

Richard Wagner, Composer

"I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal"

Richard Wagner, Composer

"I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - The plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products"

Richard Wagner, Composer

"Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted"

Richard Wagner, Composer

"Wherever the fish are, that's where we go"

Richard Wagner, Composer

"Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge"

Richard Wagner, Composer

"Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds"

Richard Wagner, Composer

"Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them"

Richard Wagner, Composer

"I write music with an exclamation point!"

Richard Wagner, Composer

"I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere, and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired"

Richard Wagner, Composer

"Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"Socially, I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before, frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind"

Gioachino Rossini, Composer

"Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour"

Gioachino Rossini, Composer

"If I felt that one of my operas did not come off, I would certainly say so"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

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