1432 quotes by composers for you to enjoy

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances. Franz Liszt

Theatre Recognition Indispensable Through Performance First-Rate Which Initiative Receives

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done. Franz Schubert

God Has-Been Composing Had Simply Like Am Been Done

The moment is supreme. Franz Schubert

Supreme Moment

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can. Franz Schubert

Try Imagination Decorate Much

The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act. Franz Schubert

Unable Blamed Parts His Manager Which Act Who Players

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment? Franz Schubert

There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting. Fred Frith

Life Good Great Perspective Everyday Life Feeling Everyday Examine Point Point Of View Always Any Maybe Refuse Interesting Them View Keeps Things

Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them. Fred Frith

You Concert Want Them Use Used Necessarily

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball. Fred Frith

Alone Remember Kick France Laughing Some Dressed Costumes Football Ball Up Friends Stand Stand Up Hard Even Playing Peculiar

Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it? Fred Frith

Music Think Kids Never Well Anything Experimental

What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations. Fritz Kreisler

Me Liberty Police Strict Increased Relaxation Everywhere Kind Spite Particularly Mob Impressed Greatly Any Order Vienna Regulations

One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way. Fritz Kreisler

Strange Mind State Way Eye Prevents Hypnotic Firing Almost Observing Line Normal Gets Psychological Which While Noticing Things

Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors. Fritz Kreisler

Day Me Wife Before Duty Later Immediately Colors Wire Had Reached Calling Although Accompanied Years Left Officer Report Commission Order Happened Switzerland Resigned Two

My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations. Fritz Kreisler

Me Wife Nurse Later Cross Insisting Troop Could Hospitals Allowed Developed Volunteered Red Operations Go Than Front Being Order Sent Far Rear Farther Large Near Actual Her Services

Signs of fatigue soon manifested themselves more and more strongly, and slowly the men dropped out one by one, from sheer exhaustion. No murmur of complaint, however, would be heard. Fritz Kreisler

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun. Fritz Kreisler

Quotes by Composers