Blizzard Quote by David Mitchell

“One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner.”

— David Mitchell

If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing…

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Composers are very individual creatures.

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— Virgil Thomson

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

— Charles Hazlewood

Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop…

— Hilary Hahn

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— Oliver Sacks

Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment –…

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