Quote by Christopher Small

Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!

— Anonymous

“History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.”

— Michael P. Naughton

“In this time of , music is vital.”

— Susanne Dunlap

“In the symphony of existence, our actions compose the melody of our legacy.”

— Carlos Wallace

“Concert pianists get to be quite chummy with dead composers. They can't help it. Classical music isn't just music . It's a personal diary.…

— Marisha Pessl

How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal…

— David Mitchell

The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

— Arthur Honegger

“This has been my vocation to make music of what remains.”

— Itzhak Perlman

“There is music in the cacophony of life.”

— Saru Singhal

Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.

— Cass McCombs

“This music had been played and heard before and would be again, not only here in this church, but in places all over the…

— Jessica Shattuck

You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being like, "We…

— David Longstreth