"If I had the power, I would insist……" — Ernest Newman
"If I had the power, I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period, with the possible exception of The Creation."
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9 Quotes by Ernest Newman
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A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.
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The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven,…
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The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon…
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The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
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The great-at-anything do not set to work because they are inspired, but rather become inspired because they are working. They…
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The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
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Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting…
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The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
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