Musical Quote by Edward Abbey

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

— Edward Abbey

“Part of what Brahms and others could never quite get over was that Bruckner the composer of epic symphonies behaved, much of the time,…

— Jan Swafford

“I know of only one composer who measures up to Beethoven, and that is Bruckner.”

— Richard Wagner

An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.

— Karl Kraus

A lot of people don't know that Beethoven, when he wrote the Fifth Symphony, that second movement, he took eight years to figure that…

— Wayne Shorter

Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time…

— Darren Criss

I'm like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, I'm still going to be asking for more time…

— Darren Criss

“The less number of people like my writing the happier I become. The masses do not understand a symphony too!”

— Avijeet Das

“It is as if you have described a symphony of Beethoven accurately, with all the notes right, and the dynamics, and the pace of…

— Timothy Cook

Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly.

— Eugene Ormandy

When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He…

— Ayn Rand

My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing…

— Robert Schumann