Top 27 Quotes About Classical Composers
#1. Only classical composers were known by just their surnames, and this suited my mudlark temperament quite nicely.
Morrissey
#2. You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being like, "We are the end of music. We are the end of this tradition. Music is done."
David Longstreth
#3. I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.
Enya
#4. If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime.
Mike Love
#5. Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules ... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
Brian Greene
#6. Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in.
Mose Allison
#7. Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
Yo-Yo Ma
#8. I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.
Warren Zevon
#9. As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach. I love Paganini, too, the Italian composer who would break strings during a performance and finish playing on just one string. Someone I would have loved to play with is Jimi Hendrix.
Matt Schulze
#10. It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha
#11. It just goes to show," Teddy said. "Love of science is universal across all cultures.
Andy Weir
#12. The underlying aim of practice .is to create certainty through the development of high-quality listening.
Howard Snell
#13. I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love,
and how you gave me everything you had
and how I offered you what was left of me.
Charles Bukowski
#14. The presence of God is always with you.
Be strong and courageous. Fear not! God will grant you the strength to overcome any adversity.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#15. I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day.
Matt Groening
#16. I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert music, a lot of classical music, and he gave me a lot of inspiration, as well as composers from other countries.
Howard Shore
#17. Our true nature is steady, receptive, and accepting of everything that happens, including our own misguided conclusions and behaviors.
Gina Lake
#18. History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.
Michael P. Naughton
#19. I don't believe she's in Heaven and I don't believe she's in a better place. She's dead and when we're dead, we're gone. There are no blinding lights, there is no happy music, there are no Angels waiting to greet us.
James Frey
#20. I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
A.R. Rahman
#21. Copland was one of the first American composers to forge a truly modern style of American classical music while also making use of American popular music - including jazz.
Terry Teachout
#22. As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants.
Edward Kennedy
#23. The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle.
Karen Russell
#24. Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
Wallace Shawn
#26. It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers or classical musicians.
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
#27. I hate to think of you stuck here all day every day, doing nothing with that brilliant brain of yours."
"It never was brilliant. Anyway, who keeps these books to see who's used themselves wisely and who's wasted?
Tessa Hadley
