Compositions Quotes

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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect… — Tacitus
I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying 'I… — Hugo Wolf
On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I… — Niccolo Paganini
All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters of their art.… — Corinne Heline
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. — Horace
A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as… — William Hazlitt
And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I… — Joan Collins
When I was a boy, my family took great care with our snapshots. We really planned them. We made compositions. We posed in front of… — Richard Avedon
If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good… — Socrates
Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in… — Henri Rabaud
My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs. — Franz Schubert
If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all consist of unmeaning… — Frederick Corder
I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader… — John Philip Sousa
It (Strayhorn's Compositions) made us all think a little differently about what we were doing — Benny Carter
There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's something you feel… — Roy Haynes
Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name. — Matthew Shipp
We are God's productions, His compositions. — David Jeremiah
Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their… — Elliott Sharp
We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds… — Alma Gluck
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. — Barrett Wendell

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