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Who has composer quotes? 37 Ludwig van Beethoven composer quotes,
3 Frederic Chopin composer quotes,
41 Gustav Mahler composer quotes,
23 Claude Debussy composer quotes,
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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness.
Frederic Chopin, composer
Tradition is not to preserve the ashes, but to pass on the fire.
Gustav Mahler, composer
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.
Franz Liszt, composer
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.
Leonard Bernstein, composer
. . . colors like a flourish of trumpets or pianissimo on the violin, great, calm, oscillating, splintered surgances . . . . Is this not form?
Giacomo Puccini, composer
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
Music is the space between the notes.
Claude Debussy, composer
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach, composer
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
Igor Stravinsky, composer
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
Claude Debussy, composer
You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
Giuseppe Verdi, composer
It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts.
Oscar Levant, composer
Joy is not in things; it is in us
Richard Wagner, composer
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
Claude Debussy, composer
There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
Oscar Levant, composer
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.
George Gershwin, composer
If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.
Johannes Brahms, composer
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
Gioachino Rossini, composer
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
Robert Schumann, composer
For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.
Gyorgy Ligeti, composer
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
Hector Berlioz, composer
I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.
Georges Bizet, composer
Love forbids you not to love.
Umberto Giordano, composer
I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.
John Cage, composer
When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty.' I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.
Erik Satie, composer
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
Igor Stravinsky, composer
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
Felix Mendelssohn, composer
People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
Claude Debussy, composer
Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them.
Charles Gounod, composer
Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.
Giacomo Puccini, composer
Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
Johann Sebastian Bach, composer
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.
Franz Schubert, composer
Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
Leonard Bernstein, composer
Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
Oscar Levant, composer
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant, composer
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
Claude Debussy, composer
Every great inspiration is but an experiment.
Charles Ives, composer
I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.
Arvo Part, composer
Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic.
Jean Sibelius, composer
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.
Tchaikovsky, composer
The end of all good music is to affect the soul.
Claudio Monteverdi, composer
This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently.
Ruggero Leoncavallo, composer
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
Igor Stravinsky, composer
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky, composer
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