Accountants Quote by Ernest Newman

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

— Ernest Newman

The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

— Ernest Newman

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

— Ernest Newman

The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else than a…

— George Gershwin

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

— John Philip Sousa

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's…

— Frederic Chopin

Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the…

— Virgil Thomson

I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

“It was Haydn and Mozart who really cracked the sonata, but it was Beethoven who reinvented it, just as he reinvented the symphony. Bach…

— Rachel Joyce

What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.

— Robert Moog

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind…

— Jascha Heifetz

All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a…

— Andris Nelsons