Contemplative Quote by Bear McCreary

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

— Aaron Copland

“(regarding the prelude from suite two)... The key is minor, the three notes a tragic triad. The tones move closer and closer to a…

— Eric Siblin

I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

“Each scene has its own music, and the music is created for the scene, woven to it in ways we do not understand. No…

— Lisa Wingate

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.

— Jean Cocteau

Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful canon, one of those pieces in which, surely, the composer simply transcribed what was…

— Mark Helprin

“Let the music of words and the literature of notes harmonize within you, for in this symphony of expression, we discover the melody of…

— Ramona I

“There is a musicke where-ever there is a harmony, order or proportion; and thus farre we may maintain the musick of the spheares; for…

— Thomas Browne

“When at last I feel ready to tackle the whole of the piece, I begin slowly, delighting in the silvery tone of this violin…

— Pat Lowery Collins

Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?

— Robert Morris

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

— Ned Rorem

“Well, what do you think? Avanti?" "Avanti," cries everyone, and, after a few quick re-tunings of our instruments, and re-initialisings of our hearts, we…

— Vikram Seth