Quotes by Composers - Page 3

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The happiest people on Earth are the ones who know love.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

Gioacchino Rossini

One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.

Igor Stravinsky

It is great to have friends when one is young but indeed it is still more so when you are getting old. When we are young friends are like everything else a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

Edvard Grieg

I’m famous. Ain’t that a bitch?

Thelonious Monk

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A disloyal friend is no friend.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

My son, my son. When I had my son I would explain all that to him when he was starry enough to like understand. But then I knew he would not understand or would not want to understand at all and would do all the veshches I had done, yes perhaps even killing some poor starry forella surrounded with mewing kots and koshkas, and I would not be able to really stop him. And nor would he be able to stop his own son, brothers. And so it would itty on to like the end of the world...

Anthony Burgess

One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' from a first hearing and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time.

Gioacchino Rossini

It's good to vandalize one's own work.

John P. Sousa

According to the rules of comedy, your suffering will be funny after an undetermined length of time. Maybe not while you're having your gangrenous leg sawed off, watching your home burn down or learning how to be intimate with your cellmate, but, in the big scheme of things, soon.

Chuck Lorre

Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.

Gustav Hoist

Why do you consult [women's] words when it is not their mouths that speak? Consult their eyes, their colour, their breathing, their timid manner, their slight resistance, that is the language nature gave them for your answer. The lips always say 'No,' and rightly so; but the tone is not always the same, and that cannot lie. Has not a woman the same needs as a man, but without the same right to make them known? Her fate would be too cruel if she had no language in which to express her legitimate desires except the words which she dare not utter.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Whenever he was en route from one place to another, he was able to look at his life with a little more objectivity than usual. it was often on trpis that he thought most clearly, and made the decisions that he could not reach when he was stationary.

Paul Bowles

My advice about acting? Speak clearly don't bump into people and if you must have motivation think of your pay packet on Friday.

Noël Coward

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Dreams go by opposites I was once told.

Anthony Burgess

TRINA:I'm tired of all the happy men who rule the world.Their smile, their smile's their pedigree. They smile, but not for me.I'd like the chance to hideIn their world.I'm happy, but I'm not at ease with that whole world.

William Finn

Beethoven can write music thank God - but he can do nothing else on earth.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

Franz Liszt

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts--such is the duty of the artist.

Robert Schumann

Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off forever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.

Anthony Burgess

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Jaron Lanier

Look deeply into life, and study it as diligently as the other arts and sciences.

Robert Schumann

If you limit your choice only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

Robert Fritz

You have no cause to grumble boy. You made your choice and all this is a consequence of your choice. Whatever now ensues is what you yourself have chosen.

Anthony Burgess

If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.

Robert Schumann

Art is not an end in itself but a means of addressing humanity.

M. P. Moussorgsky

The laws of men are not infallible.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.

Noël Coward

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

Stephen Sondheim

Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

When people are doing their utmost to upset you, it's probably best to just laugh at them.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Music is the silence between the notes.

Claude Debussy

Power and profit structures're out of cahoots with current technology. Aware of new inventions, corporations put them aside, waiting for competitive reasons until they're obliged to use new gimmicks.

John Cage

They lurk in the cold and dark.Hungry and,wicked,they wait for their one chance to devour the weak on Sorry Night.Then the vours feast on a banquet of fear.Your fear.They steal your soul but your body remains.No one knows the difference.

Simon Holt

I never see problems. I always see challenges. By definition, a problem is something unwelcome or harmful, whereas a challenge is a contest. Contests can be won; and, I love winning.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Don't be afraid, just play the music.

Charlie Parker

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Charlie Chaplin

A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.

Anthony Burgess

Joy is not in things it is in us.

Richard Wagner

When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi were strongly motivated. So they didn't give up. They somehow knew that the only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing. They seemed to go on the assumption that there is no failure greater than the failure of not trying, and so they continued to try in the face of repeated failures.

John Powell

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

John Powell

The older I get, the better I was.

Van Dyke Parks

What exactly does that expression mean, 'friends with benefits'? Does he provide her with health insurance?

Chuck Lorre

Live for each second without hesitation

Elton John

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

Franz Schubert

Entirely taken up by the present, I could remember nothing; I had no distinct notion of myself as a person, nor had I the least idea of what had just happened to me. I did not know who I was, nor where I was; I felt neither pain, fear, nor anxiety. I watched my blood flowing as I might have watched a stream, without even thinking that the blood had anything to do with me. I felt throughout my whole being such a wonderful calm, that whenever I recall this feeling I can find nothing to compare with it in all the pleasures that stir our lives.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

Leonard Bernstein

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

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.

Albert Dietrich

The bounds of human possibility are not as confining as we think they are; they are made to seem to be tight by our weaknesses, our vices, our prejudices that confine them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Adopting the language of a pretense only serves to ease participation in it.

Bartok

Good.I need you to be scared.Very,very scared.And then you'll never be scared again.

Simon Holt

Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy not gold.

Beethoven

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

Hans Zimmer

Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

The music is not in the notes,but in the silence between.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Imagine how many suicide victims would still be with us, if only the right person said the right thing at the right time.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

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