Quotes by Composers

Art is the most beautiful of all lies. Claude Debussy
Beautiful Art Most Beautiful Lies Most
If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. Eubie Blake
Myself Better Care Long Live Taken Known Going
It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy. Franz Liszt
Nature Impossible Complete Fusion More Gypsy Than Imagine
Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy. Franz Schubert
Heart Light Mind Too Hides Easy Heavy
A man endures misfortune without complaint. Franz Schubert
Man Complaint Misfortune Without Endures
Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long? Frederic Chopin
Happiness Man Happy World Long Dream Only Never Period Him Always Very Escape Often Cannot Which Granted Brief Why Last
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. Igor Stravinsky
Merit Also Duck Hear Hears Effort Listen Just
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. Igor Stravinsky
Spend Harp Out Percent Tune Tuning Lives Playing
If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord. Johann Sebastian Bach
Idiot Own My Own Accord Decide Then
I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language. Karlheinz Stockhausen
Language Make Became Sounds Meaningful Aware
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes. Ludwig van Beethoven
Music Me Down About Roar Until Sound Storm Them Notes Tones Set
Schizophrenia beats dining alone. Oscar Levant
Alone Schizophrenia Dining Beats
I write music with an exclamation point! Richard Wagner
Music Point Write Exclamation
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
Thought Everywhere Inspired Divine Feel Am Any Currents Vibrating Vibrations Ether Convinced Who Universal
Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they're gone. Roscoe Mitchell
Life Life Is Short Somebody Gone Once Short
I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on. Stephen Sondheim
You World Move On Shaken Mistaken Been May Move Choice Choosing Chose
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning. Aaron Copland
Music Will Long Thrive Living Some Spirit Give Accompany Human Sustain Form Meaning Planet Human Spirit Expressive
There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature. Claude Debussy
Beautiful Nature Musicians Sunset Book Will Example Nothing Too Musical Find More Sees He Development Feels Read Than Which Little Who Alas
Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. Edgard Varese
Life Music Alone Needs Science New Which Infuse Should Means Vigor Youthful Expression
Music is an outburst of the soul. Frederick Delius
Music Soul Outburst
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. Gioachino Rossini
Music Good Every Kind Boring Except
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do. Igor Stravinsky
Work Time Will Later Composer About He Knows Always Real His Whole Suddenly Aware Conscious Thinks
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. Igor Stravinsky
Constraint Constraints More Only Self Obtain Execution Precision Serve
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven. Igor Stravinsky
Forgiveness Undone Only Sins Forgiven Cannot
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning. Igor Stravinsky
Work Beginning Eating Inspiration Just Appetite Brings
Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence. Johann Sebastian Bach
Music God Devotional Always His Hand Gracious Where Presence
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