Music

(52 votes)   A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out

Ernest Newman

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(51 votes)   I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

James Taylor

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(51 votes)   I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

James Brown

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(51 votes)   Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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(51 votes)   The history of a people is found in its songs.

George Jellinek

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(51 votes)   The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

George Steiner
1929-, French-born American Critic, Novelist

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(50 votes)   No good opera plot can be sensible:... people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

W. H. Auden

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(50 votes)   People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Robert Schumann
1810-1856, German Composer

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(49 votes)   "the music takes you to the scene, the place but the words take you there"

Adrian L.
teenager

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(48 votes)   Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

James G. Huneker
1860-1921, American Critic, Musician

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(48 votes)   Only sick music makes money today.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(47 votes)   She was one of those people who said ''I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.''

Sir Max Beerbohm
1872-1956, British Actor

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(46 votes)   I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Martin Luther
1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reformation

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(45 votes)   I enjoy writing to Mozart's Requiem Mass; and the Kyrie with an energy and beauty that on occasion has moved me to tears. And upon it's completion I lay upon the bed as if in a post coital perplexity. By the end of the chef-d'oeuvre I'm in curious shape. To put into words the sounds that reach into the depths of me I cannot. To put into words the sentiment, and fervor, joy, anguish, humor, and love; the ignis fatuus, I cannot, but only be amazed each and every time.

Greg Evans
American Writer 1978-

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(42 votes)   A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Ernest Newman

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