20th century Quote by David Longstreth

“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

“The city (of Vienna) had an unerring tradition of celebrating some of it's greatest composers after it had around them to die in poverty.”

— Charles Emmerson

“Perhaps Mozart’s Requiem would be fitting music for the end of the world. She began to hum Dies Irae, recalling its first performance in…

— Barry Kirwan

Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.

— Thomas Beecham

“The unfinished symphony that is your life is built on the harmony within your orchestra that grows in number of musicians every time you…

— Will Jelbert

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

— Charles Rosen

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated…

— Hanns Eisler

Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33")

— John Cage

“Modern man is full of platitudes about living life to its fullest, with catchy keychain phrases and little plaques for kitchen walls. But if…

— Tiffany Madison

Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.

— Michael Tilson Thomas

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

— Pepe Romero

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

— Gyorgy Ligeti