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477 Composer Quotes

Writing is a form of mischief.

Writing Form Mischief
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Music is a foreign language which everyone knows but only musicians can speak

Music Language Muscians Speak
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Having just the vision's no solution, everything depends on execution

Vision's Solution Depends Execution
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Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.

Anything Do You New
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Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment.

Moment Big Skies Fall
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To wish and wait From day to day Will never keep The wolves away.

Wish Wait Keep Wolves away
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What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

Best Music Found Notes
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With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

Coming Spring Calm
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I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

Crazy Young Passions Moment
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In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

Music Chamber Listened Audience
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Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.

Fortunately Something Harvested Idle
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It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

Strange Feels Foward First
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All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

All Perfect Detail Perish
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Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

Tradition Worship Ashes Fire
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A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

Symphony World Contain Everything
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If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Composer Say Words Music
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The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause

Point World Life Failure
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The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
Spiritual Experiences Future Life
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The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.

Love Sounds Immobile Rocks
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When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

Summit Great Reluctance Reach
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Man lives in greatest pain

Man Lives Greatest Pain
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You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

Renounce Convention Vanity Delusion
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I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

Beg Assume Pose Disguise
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The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.

Live Learn Feel Men
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The real art of conducting consists in transitions

Real Art Conducting Transitions
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Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

Melodic Invention Signs Divine gift
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Discipline, work. Work, discipline.
Discipline Work
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It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

One's Endeavour Afresh Anew
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The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

Spirit Assert Medium Clear form
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Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.

Never GuidedOpinions One's way
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The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

Music Develops Composer Thoughts
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I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

Hitting Against Walls Giving way
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To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.

Write Symphony Construct World
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Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been a statue set up in honour of a critic

Attention Critics Statue Honour
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Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.

Music Plane Everything World
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Musicians talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art

Money Businessmen Music Art
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If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances.

Understood World Logic Harmony
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Music begins where the possibilities of language end.
Music Begins Possibilities Language
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Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.

Music Beautiful God World
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You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Forget Fruits Belong Land
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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Souls Faith Great Individuals
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Children Profession Waste Time
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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Fame Breath People Unwholesome
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We do not know what is really good or bad fortune

We Know Good Bad
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience Bitter Fruit Sweet
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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Afflication Happens You Defeat
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Difficult Nobly Earning Living
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

People Know Talkers Little
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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Force Obedience Legitimate Powers
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
World Reality Limits Imagination
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