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> [There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-barber/there-s-no-reason-music-should-be-difficult-for-an-audience-to/)

[Samuel Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-barber/)

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## More by Samuel Barber

> [I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-barber/i-was-supposed-to-be-a-doctor-i-was-supposed-to-go-to-princeton-and/)

[Samuel Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-barber/)

> [I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-barber/i-was-7-years-old-when-i-began-composing-i-began-composing/)

[Samuel Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-barber/)

> [I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-barber/i-can-only-say-that-i-myself-wrote-always-as-i-wished-without-a/)

[Samuel Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-barber/)

> [I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-barber/i-have-always-believed-that-i-need-a-circumference-of-silence-as-to/)

[Samuel Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-barber/)

> [I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-barber/i-guess-for-better-or-for-worse-i-am-an-american-composer-and-i-ve/)

[Samuel Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-barber/)

> [I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-barber/i-ve-had-little-success-in-intellectual-circles-i-m-not-talked-about/)

[Samuel Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-barber/)

> [As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-barber/as-for-my-own-music-i-ve-never-written-a-book-about-it-i-m-not/)

[Samuel Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-barber/)

> [I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-barber/i-was-meant-to-be-a-composer-and-will-be-i-m-sure-don-t-ask-me-to-try/)

[Samuel Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-barber/)

> [I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-barber/i-think-that-what-s-been-holding-composers-back-a-great-deal-is-that/)

[Samuel Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-barber/)

> [He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-barber/he-is-a-lyric-poet-aloof-from-the-swirling-currents-in-which-many-of/)

[Samuel Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-barber/)

> [There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-barber/there-s-no-reason-music-should-be-difficult-for-an-audience-to/)

[Samuel Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-barber/)

> [How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-barber/how-awful-that-the-artist-has-become-nothing-but-the-after-dinner/)

[Samuel Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-barber/)

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