Big Quote by Stephen Hough

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For…

— Pierre Boulez

My mom was an opera singer. She did all the classical music, and I heard it. I know every opera. I know every classical…

— Bakermat

I consider composing music to the sequel of 'Ladies Tailor' which had music by Ilayaraaja as my biggest blessing.

— Mani Sharma

There are very few singers who know the art of creating music which plays with people's feelings and emotions.

— Sara Khan

Who can forget the music of the French composer Germaine Tailleferre? These are just a few composers whose aesthetic ideals we all share, and…

— Barbara Harbach

The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating…

— Giacomo Puccini

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

— Itzhak Perlman

I don't believe in original melodies. There are only so many computations of eight notes.

— Mick Jagger

Music exists when rhythmic, melodic or harmonic order is deliberately created, and consciously listened to, and it is only language-using, self-conscious creatures ... who…

— Roger Scruton

Composers are very individual creatures.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement…

— Richard Rodney Bennett