Has beens Quote by Gervase Hughes

“but I have always suspected that one could substitute the Minuet of Haydn’s 98th symphony for the Minuet in Haydn’s 99th symphony without sensing…

— Aaron Copland

“I could speak about the Haydn for hours—what a lovely friendship this might have been.”

— André Aciman

“There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing.”

— Fran Lebowitz

“You can't kill a minuet de la coeur. You may shut up the music book... but surely the minuet-- the minuet itself is dancing…

— Ford Madox Ford

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated…

— Edith Wharton

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would have never written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker…

— Branford Marsalis

“Everything has been composed, just not yet written down. LETTER TO LEOPOLD MOZART [1780]”

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

It seemed to me that had Haydn lived to our day he would have retained his own style while accepting something of the new…

— Sergei Prokofiev

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker…

— Charlie Parker

If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.

— Johannes Brahms

“On the other hand, for years I did not listen to Mozart after I was assaulted by the perverse idea that Mozart does not…

— Gabriel García Márquez

One of the problems with musicals and opera is you can't ever hear all the words.

— Tim Rice