Quotes About Classical Music Composers

#1. 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

#2. Things are not real, but they are the reflection of our imaginations and perceptions.

Debasish Mridha

#3. Wars fought over a face like this,

Kristen Ashley

#4. For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

Christopher Columbus

#5. The angry one looked her over. "What's your name?" "These are not the droids you are looking for," she said. The smaller, auburn-haired man to her left cracked up.

Alanea Alder

#6. The feeling that someone owes us something, the pain for the harm that others caused us, etc., stops the inner progress of the soul.

Samael Aun Weor

#7. 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

#8. For the second time this week, I felt like Alice in Wonderland, about to fall down a pit, a new adventure forced upon me.

Gena Showalter

#9. People write to me all the time to tell me that "homosexuality is an abomination." They base this on a quote in Leviticus. I think the Bible has proved to be a very mysterious and dangerous document.

Anne Rice

#10. 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

#11. Everything went great right up to the explosion.

Andy Weir

#12. It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#13. 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

#14. As a kid, during the school year, my head was often buried in a textbook or Judy Blume book; the words and pictures were the perfect, barrier-free environment for me.

Marlee Matlin

#15. I do first draft in longhand, which saves a lot of rewriting. I try to get a certain amount done each day. Don't always, but I try. Then I clean up in the rewrites.

Harry Turtledove

#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. There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

Laurence Sterne

#18. Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

Yo-Yo Ma

#19. 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

#20. Is there a home, a home for me? Where the people stay until eternity? Is there a road that winds up, underneath the big green tree? Is there a home, a home for me?

Stan Ridgway