36 Quotes About Composers

History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.

The artists are the most powerful ones, the creators, first are the painters, working without words, second are the music composers, and third are the writers.

Our DNA has a galactic history. True writers, composers, fine artists writers, who go deep within themselves, bring forth galactic information. We are soul-libraries of the galaxy.

History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.

Having considered Handel's tumultuous opera career and his first term at Covent Garden in the 1730s, perhaps we may dare to suggest he was one of the foremost pioneers in establishing autonomy within the traditional system of music patronage, notwithstanding his efforts to become an independent impressario often proved disappointing.

Beethoven introduced us to anger. Haydn taught us capriciousness, Rachmaninoff melancholy. Wagner was demonic. Bach was pious. Schumann was mad, and because his genius was able to record his fight for sanity, we heard what isolation and the edge of lunacy sounded like. Liszt was lusty and vigorous and insisted that we confront his overwhelming sexuality as well as our own. Chopin was a poet, and without him we never would have understood what night was, what perfume was, what romance was.

So you’re a real person! I always thought you were a legendary figure, like unicorns or Giuseppe Verdi.

The moment you begin to start feeling the need to protect your emotions from the disappointment of a person is the moment you need to wake up and stop the fantasy you created by removing them out of your life.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.