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  • I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.

    Mean   Saws   Hendrix  
  • Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

    Love   Marriage   Flower  
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (1971). “Chagall at the Met”, Leon Amiel Publisher
  • Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

    Musician   Jazz   Force  
    "Cellist Yo Yo Ma: His career and music". www.cnn.com. March 15, 2001.
  • Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

  • The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

    Love   Inspiring   Affair  
  • Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

  • Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

    Music   Knowledge   World  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

    Letter to Ferdinand Ries, 20 Dec. 1822
  • A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

    Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.
  • Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

  • Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

    "Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought". Book by John Paynter, 1992.
  • Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33")

  • I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my personality by dabbling in rock 'n' roll.

    Rocks   Personality   Ham  
  • Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (1971). “Chagall at the Met”, Leon Amiel Publisher
  • When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.

    Symphony   Want   Pieces  
  • I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.

    Writing   Play   Two  
    1961 In Life.
  • ... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he actually arranged the works of Mozart and other classical composers for guitar, something that had never been done before ... Segovias' style is not slick or contrived, but it's still very clean and his timing is impeccable ... it's got a feeling of casual elegance, as if he's sitting around the house in Spain with a jug of wine, just playing from the heart.

    Music   Heart   Wine  
  • You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being like, "We are the end of music. We are the end of this tradition. Music is done."

    Thinking   Sitting   Done  
    "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.
  • Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

    Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.13, Courier Corporation
  • I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

  • But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too. ... And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard. ... Dylan can do no wrong. ... Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him. ... I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.

    Hero   Home   Mean  
  • I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

    Sound   Orchestra   Want  
  • I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • [Phil wood] put on some [Igor] Stravinsky and say to follow the score, tell me to play me the opening to the Rite of Spring. Or, "I'm going to play you some 20th century obscure classical composer you don't know". Or, "Let's listen to some Charles Ives, let's sight read some Bartok violin duets", etc.

    Spring   Sight   Play  
  • To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

    Time   Stress   Humor  
  • Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

  • I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day.

    Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2006.
  • To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

    Inspiring   Art   Men  
  • You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)

    Music   Trying   Movement  
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