16 Quotes by Ernest Newman

A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn’t waste time waiting for inspiration.

Jazz is not a ‘form’ but a collection of tags and tricks.

Was he so ignorant of human nature as not to know that a comfortable bank balance and an appreciation of good food and tobacco and well-cut clothes and jewels can go perfectly well in practice, in normal beings, with the keenest sensibility to the spiritualities of art?

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.