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"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos"
Stephen Sondheim, Composer
"I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged"
Stephen Sondheim, Composer
"The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion, don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me"
Stephen Sondheim, Composer
"I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra"
Stephen Sondheim, Composer
"Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure"
Stephen Sondheim, Composer
"Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall"
Stephen Sondheim, Composer
"If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song"
Stephen Sondheim, Composer
"When we separate music from life we get art"
John Cage, Composer
"We are involved in a life that passes understanding, and our highest business is our daily life"
John Cage, Composer
"It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep"
John Cage, Composer
"We carry our homes within us, which enables us to fly"
John Cage, Composer
"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all"
John Cage, Composer
"The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well"
William Gilbert, Composer
"So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything, just repeated patterns, musical patterns"
Terry Riley, Composer
"He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist"
William Gilbert, Composer
"Well, I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C,' which I wrote in 1964. At that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time"
Terry Riley, Composer
"We will hang you, never fear, most politely, most politely"
William Gilbert, Composer
"Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites"
John Powell, Composer
"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street, it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard"
John Powell, Composer
"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman"
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
"Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth"
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy"
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
"Only the pure in heart can make a good soup"
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life"
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
"Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken"
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
"I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing"
Richard Wagner, Composer
"I wish I could score everything for horns"
Richard Wagner, Composer
"I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references"
Carlisle Floyd, Composer
"What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds"
Carlisle Floyd, Composer
"As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more"
John Zorn, Composer
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