Anguish Quote by Hector Berlioz

There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching…

— David Bowie

The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music. Then, the music speaks through…

— Mstislav Rostropovich

He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving…

— William Faulkner

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later…

— Igor Stravinsky

“Forgetting! It is a form of suicide, a renunciation of the only good the we truly and ineluctably possess: the past. For if joys…

— Anonymous

To compose is to remember music that has never been written.

— Robert Schumann

“[A writer] must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no…

— William Faulkner

I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.

— Alexander Borodin

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

“To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of every creative…

— Dani Shapiro

“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent…

— Curtis Ackie

“All great work—artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual—is produced at those moments when its creators are lost completely in their actions, when they forget themselves…

— Walpola Rahula