Famous quotes by Composers

"Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history"

Peter Warlock, Composer

"Although I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!"

Malcolm Arnold, Composer

"The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle"

Pietro Mascagni, Composer

"It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it"

Orlando Gibbons, Composer

"Make new friends, but keep the old; those are silver, these are gold"

Joseph Parry, Composer

"Ever up and onward"

Billy Strayhorn, Composer

"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art"

Frederic Chopin, Composer

"Well, we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables"

Vernon Duke, Composer

"Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God"

Arvo Part, Composer

"I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music"

Kurt Weill, Composer

"The end of all good music is to affect the soul"

Claudio Monteverdi, Composer

"Then I grew up and fell in love, I asked my sweetheart, "What lies ahead?""

Jay Livingston, Composer

"But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people"

Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer

"I write with a mouse because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it"

Fred Frith, Composer

"Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow"

Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Composer

"That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera"

Gunther Schuller, Composer

"I made my way on to a grey list, a black list even. That's something I'm very proud of, actually"

Elmer Bernstein, Composer

"Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events"

Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

"He may have hair upon his chest, but, sister, so has Lassie"

Cole Porter, Composer

"The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of"

Ned Rorem, Composer

"The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general"

George Crumb, Composer

"Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema"

Maurice Jarre, Composer

"Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"Well, rather than to give you my impression on Los Angeles, per se, my older sister's husband is and American, therefore I have a pretty good idea of the, perhaps the characteristics of Americans in general"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to perform. I've just initiated the project. That leads the project into creating an independent label outside of game music"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"The second album of Black Mages is currently in the process of recording, and the basic tracks have already been completed. Hopefully, sometime in the future we will be able to have a concert"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"Last year in Germany, at a town hall in Leipzig, there was a game music concert played by the orchestra and some of the Final Fantasy scores were played. This year there is another concert scheduled in the same location, for game music"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side"

Oscar Levant, Composer

"I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself"

Oscar Levant, Composer

"I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy"

Oscar Levant, Composer

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