Anticipate Quote by Levi Strauss

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

“History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.”

— Michael P. Naughton

“Music itself has taught me never to underestimate a mistake, for, in the midst of all, it’s often in that mistake where the realm…

— Anna Jae

“Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights.”

— Debasish Mridha

I can admire music where you feel the composer has everything organized and perfectly shaped, but it doesn't touch me. I like to feel…

— Stephen Hough

“A composer who can lift the spirit of a million people with a song, is a definite force for good.”

— Abhijit Naskar

If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing…

— Jean-Jacques Nattiez

As we develop, I just see us following our heart on this musical journey.

— M. Shadows

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

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows…

— Claude Debussy