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“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.”

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Author:Gustav Mahler

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

Source: Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words

“Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.”

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Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.”

“I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.”

“The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.”

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Author:Igor Stravinsky

“A good composer does not imitate; he steals.”

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Author:Igor Stravinsky

“A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.”

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Book:Real Frank Zappa Book

Source: Real Frank Zappa Book

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”

“Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.”

“I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.”

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Author:Richard Strauss

“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”

“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”

“If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.”

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Author:Simon Rattle

“That's why I'm so passionate about making music for movies because you dive in and find the best ideas to bring tolife a collective piece of art. ... [Composing] is not a job for me. And that explains why I never stop. Even though it's tough on your body and your brain and the sacrifices you have to make, what can I do? I'm passionate about it so I never stop.”

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Author:Alexandre Desplat

“Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.”

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Author:George Frideric Handel