Famous quotes by Composers

"There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy!"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"The moment is supreme"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry, I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love!"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"Approval or blame will follow in the world to come"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"I listened more than I studied... Therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed"

Joseph Haydn, Composer

"There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality, they only pass each other by"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"Someone who knows only music understands nothing about it"

Hanns Eisler, Composer

"I no longer limit myself"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica"

Thomas Beecham, Composer

"Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc., was that they rejected it"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"When I came back I had to realize that IC was not in a very good shape - all the much money that we had because of the huge Ideal success was gone. I was very upset"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"You write it down because finally, when it's written down, you do get it out of your system somewhat"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"Yes, I was invited to make the sound environment at a booth of a huge electronic company, during the Hanover Industrial Fair in 1973. It was a job. Slightly good paid. But not as much as my producer then told the press!"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

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