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CLASSICAL
You may have...
You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
Source: Attila.
-- Giuseppe...
I adore art...
I adore art . . . when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and...
Our mistake, you...
Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening . . . And now along...
They were all...
They were all churning out operas of mine. It was clearly impossible for me to work under such conditions, so I hired...
Oh blessed a...
Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his...
It is cruel,...
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness & of pain: of strength &...
The old idea...
The old idea . . . of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense....
Music does not...
Music does not exist until it is performed.
Source: Benjamin Britten's World of...
Composing is like...
Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house the color of the...
[Music has]...
[Music has] the beauty of disappointment & never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, & everlasting beauty of...
. . ....
. . . colors like a flourish of trumpets or pianissimo on the violin, great, calm, oscillating, splintered surgances ....
Inspiration is an...
Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic...
Art is a...
Art is a kind of illness.
Source: In Five Thousand Quotations for all occasions, by...
Cold calculation, random...
Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that...
The work comes...
The work comes into the world at an undetermined hour, from a still unknown, but it comes...
So long as...
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give...
Inspiration may be...
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness -- I wouldn't know. But I am sure it...
You compose because...
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive,...
There is something...
There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time...
When I speak...
When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain...