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Composing Music Quotes
Source: What Price Fame?
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.”
Source: Chagall at the Met
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
Source: Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words
“Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
“Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.”
“I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.”
Source: Findings
Source: Real Frank Zappa Book
“Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
Source: Chagall at the Met
“Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.”
“Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.”
“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
“A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.”
“Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.”
Source: Me
“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.”
Source: Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten