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Composer Quotes by Ernest Newman
- A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.
- The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled…
- The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
- The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
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- I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. — Leonard Bernstein
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- I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed,… — Martin Seligman