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477 Composer Quotes

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.

Accompany Expressive Form Give
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'

Answer Asking Many Meaning
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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

Am Antithesis Form Inspiration
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

Flow Inconceivable Incredible Itself
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

About Literary Man Music
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

About Alive Basic Because
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“Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.”
Even Winter Shall Green
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“The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.”

Earth Suffocating Swear Cut
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“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, and yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.”

Wish Throw Thought Poison
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“Simplicity is the final achievement.”

Simplicity Final Achievement
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“Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

Put Soul Play Feel
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“Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.”

Simplicity Highest Achievable Overcome
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“As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.”

Long Have Health Strength
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“There are certain times when I feel more inspired, filled with a strong power that forces me to listen to my inner voice, and when I feel more need than ever for a Pleyel piano.”

Certain Time Inspired Filled
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Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.
Loves Music Never Unhappy
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No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.

One Understand Grief Joy
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My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.

Composition Spring Sorrow Give
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Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Happy Finds True Friend
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When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

Wished Sorrow Sing Transformed
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Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

Night Bed Wake Morning
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You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Believe Happiness Derived Place
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When all hopes of recognition or honor have faded into distant memory, when purity of heart meets sorrow of mind, when all the world seems to walk in blindness and yet a man works without wearying for that which he loves...only in this moment is passion truly understood

Hopes Recognition Honor Faded
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Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.

Easy Mind Heart Hides
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It sometimes seems to me as if I do not belong to this world at all. I deplore music that engenders in people not love but madness: which rouses them to scornful laughter instead of lifting their thoughts to God.

Sometimes Seems Belong World
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No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

Feels Grief Understand Joy
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There is no such thing as happy music.

Thing Music Happy
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The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.
World Resembles Stage Man
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I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.
Try Decorate Imagination Can
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I am in the world only for the purpose of composing

World Purpose Composing
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Love is in the air these days, so we thought we'd give a try to make your day a little brighter.

Love Air Days Give
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The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.

Guitar Wonderful Instrument Understood
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There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.

Eight Girls Living Practically
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A man endures misfortune without complaint.

Man Endures Misfortune Complaint
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The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Greatest Misfortune Wise Man
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Why does God endow us with compassion?

Does God Endow Compassion
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
After End Finish Long
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The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

Able Better Building Church
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

Am Book Drama Film
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
Also Duck Effort Hear
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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.

About Always Aware Composer
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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Animals Best Children Music
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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

Am Animal Animals Anymore
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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.

Constraint Constraints Execution More
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

Appreciation General Instead Love
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

Appetite Beginning Brings Eating
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?

Always Hear Like Music
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

Anonymity Bach Been Born
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Artists Borrow Great Lesser
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

Create Dynamic Force Love
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Bar Felt Life Music
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