Across Quote by Mark Morris

The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have…

— Sergei Rachmaninoff

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

— Michala Petri

That desire to reach further is also where I ended my memoir, in 1994 in California, perhaps ironically, looking out to the Pacific and…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.

— Robert Moog

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

— Ned Rorem

A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.

— Evelyn Glennie

I was growing up at a time when you just couldn't go to the movies without hearing immortal film music. And I inherited from…

— Bear McCreary

When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on with its…

— Brian Eno

As late as the summer of 1941, the Atlantic Monthly, then a still respected magazine for literates and edited by White men, published a…

— Revilo P. Oliver

There are people who could watch a hurricane like Sandy blow out of the Atlantic every other day and blame it on anything but…

— Michael Specter

The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

— John Guare

The Atlantic conference in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland is a dramatic moment in World War II history because for the first time, Roosevelt…

— Robert Dallek