Color Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that represent nothing…

— Paul Gauguin

I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.

— Alan Dean Foster

My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless…

— May Sarton

It seemed to me that had Haydn lived to our day he would have retained his own style while accepting something of the new…

— Sergei Prokofiev

Since in music we deal with notes, not words, with chords, with transitions, with color and expression, the musical meaning always based on those…

— Anonymous

Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within,…

— Iannis Xenakis

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of…

— Pierre Schaeffer

I can almost see the music. It comes in the form of colors - colors jump out at me, and that translates into notes.…

— Ramin Djawadi

“Speaking generally, there are two kinds of descriptive music. The first comes under the heading of literal description. A composer wishes to recreate the…

— Aaron Copland

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and…

— Benjamin Britten

I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding and soaring…

— Bruno Walter

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt…

— William Shenstone