Inspiration Quote by John Larry Granger

“He was playing his life. His whole being was gliding over the strings. His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future. He played…

— Elie Wiesel

I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as…

— Tony Williams

I do remember realizing one day that I loved plays more than I loved playing concertos.

— John Cariani

“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

I was aware of that theme of mortality in my music since around 2009. The decaying and the disappearance of the piano sound is…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

“So it is with the concerto of our lives. Individual notes must be learned and played and practiced before we achieve harmony. And above…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Many people die with their music still in them. Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know…

— Oliver Wendall Holmes

Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful canon, one of those pieces in which, surely, the composer simply transcribed what was…

— Mark Helprin

Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'

— Alfred Schnittke

The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly,…

— Anonymous

“From time to time he would feel that acute surge go over him, like his blood was too hot all of a sudden, dying…

— William Faulkner