Degree Quote by John Hawkins

“His spirit was warped by bitter vindictiveness and puerile self-commiseration, and he spent his days in scorn of the labour that brought him bread…

— Willa Cather

Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation

— Boyd K. Packer

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

— S. J. Perelman

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

— Roy Blount, Jr

An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go over in…

— Boyd K. Packer

A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any…

— Anonymous

The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

“Concert pianists get to be quite chummy with dead composers. They can't help it. Classical music isn't just music . It's a personal diary.…

— Marisha Pessl

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

— Charles Ives

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

The conductor must make it possible to eliminate himself in the music. If the orchestra feels him doing that, then everything will go well.

— Giuseppe Sinopoli

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms…

— George Bernard Shaw