Quote by Aaron Copland

It has been said that if the opening phrase of a classical minuet can be fitted to the words "Are you the O'Reilly who…

— Gervase Hughes

“On the other hand, for years I did not listen to Mozart after I was assaulted by the perverse idea that Mozart does not…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing.”

— Fran Lebowitz

“I could speak about the Haydn for hours—what a lovely friendship this might have been.”

— André Aciman

“You may only be a small musical note in the realms of life, but together with others you make a symphony.”

— Stephen Richards

“You are not a note in a symphony; you are the entire symphony in a note.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

It seemed to me that had Haydn lived to our day he would have retained his own style while accepting something of the new…

— Sergei Prokofiev

The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.

— Peter Shaffer

“You can't kill a minuet de la coeur. You may shut up the music book... but surely the minuet-- the minuet itself is dancing…

— Ford Madox Ford

“The tuning up of an orchestra can be itself delightful, but only to those who can in some measure, however little, anticipate the symphony.”

— C.S. Lewis

“It is rather an occasion, darling,’ said Moreland, vexed at these objections. ‘After all, I am noted among composers for the smallness of my…

— Anthony Powell

“Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too…

— Peter Shaffer