Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

477 Composer Quotes

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Determined Ensemble Every First
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Talent works, genius creates.

Creates Genius Talent Works
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

Beautiful Beautiful Eyes Because Become
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

Am Around Bubbles Fresh
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

Aims Aspire Body Ever
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.

According Better Easier Impression
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.

Although Am Confidence Enough
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

Always Blend Burn Clear
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.

Against Determined Had Horn
  Favorite Make wallpaper
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
Ask Jazz Know Never
  Favorite Make wallpaper

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Folk Folk Music Heard Horse
  Favorite Make wallpaper
I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don't have, I don't need.
Am Anything I Am More
  Favorite Make wallpaper
There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.
Bad Good Kind Kinds
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

More Music Musicians Retire
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them.

Know People Some Some People
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

Find Got Notes Other
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

Gone Important Jazz Jazz Musician
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.

Good Good Music Itself Kind
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I warm up at home. I hit the stage, I'm ready, whether it's rehearsal or anything.

Anything Hit Home Ready
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I like kissable lips. A woman's lips must say, 'Come here and kiss me, Pops.'

Come Here Kiss Like
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Well, I tell you... the first chorus, I plays the melody. The second chorus, I plays the melody round the melody, and the third chorus, I routines.

Chorus First Melody Plays
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The first time I heard Jack Teagarden on the trombone, I had goose pimples all over.

First First Time Goose Had
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.

Age Around Arrested Back
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When the other kids started calling me nicknames, I knew everything was all right. I have a pretty big mouth, so they hit on that and began calling me Gatemouth or Satchelmouth, and that Satchelmouth has stuck to me all my life, except that now it's been made into 'Satchmo' - 'Satchmo' Armstrong.

All My Life Armstrong Been Began
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Very few of the men whose names have become great in the early pioneering of jazz and of swing were trained in music at all. They were born musicians: they felt their music and played by ear and memory. That was the way it was with the great Dixieland Five.

Become Born Ear Early
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Am Drunken Glorious I Am
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Good Heart Make Only
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Admit Errors Intolerable More
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Bring Eyes Fire Heart
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Music comes to me more readily than words.

Me More Music Readily
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, 'I am deaf.' If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.

Able Almost Am Any
  Favorite Make wallpaper

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Accident Am Beethoven Birth
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Art Concerning Consult Goddess
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven Earth Else God
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Between Life Mediator Music
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Alone Children Experience Happy
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Higher Music Philosophy Revelation
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Great Jewel Most Nation
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

About Down Me Notes
  Favorite Make wallpaper

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

Admirable Face Man Mark
  Favorite Make wallpaper

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

Cannot Comprehend Entrance Higher
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Better Fellow Give Greater
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Art Deserves Divine Force
  Favorite Make wallpaper
I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
Certainly Fate Me Never
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

Acquainted Be The First Became Began
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

Am Another Begun Engaged
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Artistic Be Happy Before Come
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

Allowed Altogether Artist Critics
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

Account Am Cannot Distance
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

Actual Any Come Hear
  Favorite Make wallpaper