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CLASSICAL
I've never known...
I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself...
Let your mind...
Let your mind alone, and see what happens.
Source: On writing; in Christian Science...
I thought of...
I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing musical virtue in...
Try a thing...
Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a...
Reviewing music or...
Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing...
I said to...
I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is...
Musicians . ....
Musicians . . . own music because music owns them.
Source: Commencement address at...
I don't go...
I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.
Source: On infrequency with...
I seem to...
I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third...
I don't care...
I don't care what [other critics] say, I only hope to be played.
Source: On being...
You explain how...
You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.
I never learned...
I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is...
I look at...
I look at you and I write down what I hear.
Source: To Picasso, when asked how he...
Falsely conceived and...
Falsely conceived and rather clumsily executed . . . crooked folklore and halfway opera.
The description and...
The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a...
Brush up your...
Brush up your Shakespeare,
Start quoting him now,
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will...
You're the Nile,<br>You're...
You're the Nile,
You're the Tower of Pisa,
You're the smile
On the Mona Lisa.
My sole inspiration...
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.
Source: Press interview, 8...
Good authors, too,...
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything...
Who Wants to...
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? I don't.
Source: From the title song Who Wants to be...