Beauty Quote by George Crumb

The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which…

— David Finckel

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture…

— George Crumb

I am compared to other classical musicians, but most of them perform songs from other people, and most of those composers belong to another…

— Ludovico Einaudi

Composers are very individual creatures.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

It's so interesting, you know, whenever you read the accounts of composers playing their own music, that they had very different priorities than performers.…

— Helene Grimaud

I think the reason composers aren't valued is because many act as servants rather than music directors. Instead of taking a stand based on…

— M. Jayachandran

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

— Pepe Romero

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art…

— George Crumb

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

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

— Neville Marriner

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

— Leo Ornstein

To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.

— Gustav Mahler