“If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.” IfsKnowsWantMusicWritten Author:Joseph Haydn
“No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.” WorldSeemsJoyUnderstandingGriefMusicWrittenTalentProductsMusic IsMiseryGreat MenComposerDistress Author:Franz Schubert
“I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say, "I think I might have written that."” ThinkingKnowsI CanHumorMightFunnySongMusicWrittenListeningRadio Author:Steven Wright
“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.” PeopleFunnyStuffMusicWrittenSongwritingRock N RollSongwritersWigsFunny MusicPiano MusicModern MusicClassical Musicians Author:Frank Zappa
“And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsMeanPersonsMadeEnoughWould BeSongMusicWrittenProudEnjoyedGood TimesReally MeanBad Times Author:Stephen Chbosky
“Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.” PeopleLongMusicWrittenMusic IsLong TimeBunchLong Time AgoClassical MusicDead People Author:Frank Zappa
“Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.” MenShouldLastsMusicWrittenDeafQuartets Author:Thomas Beecham
“We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were partly completed tunes; some were written while we were in India a year before. So there was just a bit of chorus here and a verse there. We welded them all together into a routine.” YearsTwoTogetherSongBitsSidesMusicWrittenIndiaTunesSongwritingRoutineVersesChorusAbbeyMedleyAbbey Road Author:George Harrison