#composer quotes

[the-key-of-ab-major]

Time is a great teacher, unfortunately it kills all it's pupils.

Hector Berlioz

[mikrokosmos]

Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

[il-nero-virtuoso]

The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.

Composer Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns  

[sinfonia-antarctica]

I get paid far too much for what I do, and too little for what I could do.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 

[goldmidnights]

"I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wished to make them better."

G. F. Händel

[1714-konzertmeister]

[la-nero-maestro]

“A creative artist works on his next composition because he is not satisfied with his previous one. When he loses a critical attitude toward his own work, he ceases to be an artist.” ― Dmitri Shostakovich, New York Times, October 25, 1959.

[mikrokosmos]

I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart