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The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste…

— Sergei Rachmaninoff

Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept,…

— Chuck Mangione

Since I've grown up I really wanted to be able to create something different. In Persian music, opposite, again, to classical music, that the…

— Hafez Nazeri

There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

— Paul Gauguin

A lot of Arabic composers such as Mohammed Abdel Wahab mixed sounds and instruments from all over the world. It's important to be able…

— Yasmine Hamdan

“By contrast, the three other features—conjunct melodic motion, limited macroharmony, and centricity—are common to virtually all human music. This near universality may be attributable,…

— Dmitri Tymoczko

Form ossifies into genre through repetition.

— Rumaan Alam

The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of

— Ednita Nazario

The musical instuments may be western but my voice never wavers away from my own ragas. it is good to make experiments and I…

— Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary…

— Franz Liszt

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form.…

— Claude Debussy

You want the personality of each performer - whether it's singing or bass or drums or piano - to be intact. In some ways…

— Rostam Batmanglij