Composer Quotes - Page 6

• I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Feelings, Intuition, Criticism

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”

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• I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.

  Kurt Weill

  Music, Light, Differences

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• Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

  Charlie Parker

  Motivational, Music, Humorous

  "Words of Wisdom". Book edited by William Safire and Leonard Safir, p. 435, 1990.

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• One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change... is that I really need to go home and practice.

  Pat Metheny

  Change, Home, Practice

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• Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

  Cole Porter

  Funny, Change, Humorous

  "Anything Goes" (song) (1934)

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• Communication works for those who work at it.

  John Powell

  Work, Communication, Media

  John Powell, Loretta Brady (1985). “Will the real me please stand up?: so we can all get to know you! : 25 guidelines for good communication”, Thomas More Pr

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• Joy is not in things; it is in us.

  Richard Wagner

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.

  Gioachino Rossini

  Inspirational, Funny, Music

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• People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go.

  Anoushka Shankar

  Memories, People, Musician

  Twitter post from Sep 05, 2013

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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.

  Franz Schubert

  Music, Grief, Joy

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• Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspirational, Music, Dream

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.

  Paul Bowles

  Life, Death, Time

  "The Sheltering Sky". Book by Paul Bowles, 1949.

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• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

  Hector Berlioz

  Life, Music, Death

  "About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution". Book by Paul Davies, 1996.

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• Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

  Confucius

  Music, Wisdom, Art

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• A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

  Pablo de Sarasate

  Years, Practice, Musician

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• One of the reasons I believe in jazz is that the oneness of man can come through the rhythm of your heart. It’s the same anyplace in the world, that heartbeat. It’s the first thing you hear when you’re born — or before you’re born — and it’s the last thing you hear.

  Dave Brubeck

  Music, Believe, Heart

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

  Barry White

  Music, Baby, Nice

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music.

  Nino Rota

  Happiness, Music, Being Happy

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• I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a scene with terror, grandeur, gaiety, or misery. It can propel narrative switftly forward, or slow it down. It often lifts mere dialogue into the realm of poetry. Finally, it is the communicating link between the screen and the audience, reaching out and enveloping all into one single experience.

  Bernard Herrmann

  Inspirational, Music, Character

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• Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.

  George Frideric Handel

  Music, God, Writing

  Of the'Hallelujah Chorus' in his Messiah. Quoted in Romain Rolland Essays on Music (1948).

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• To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Music, Creativity, Breaking Rules

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• Competitions are for horses, not artists.

  Bela Bartok

  Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring

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• Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Motivational, Music

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• It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do.

  Marcus Miller

  Inspirational, Music, African American

  Interview with Eva Simontacchi, www.jazzitalia.net. April 10, 2005.

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• Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in any other language. If we do not want these things to remain dead treasures, we must do our utmost to make the greatest possible number of people understand their idiom.

  Zoltan Kodaly

  Inspirational, Music, Numbers

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