Central-europe Quote by Terje B. Englund

“He found himself thinking about his childhood. "Why do you drink so much, Maestro?" "This is not a music question." "Are you sad, Maestro?"…

— Mitch Albom

“A single radio post still heard him. The only link between him and the world was a wave of music, a minor modulation. Not…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.

— Walter Becker

“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along; he must…

— Evelyn Waugh

The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

— Arthur Honegger

“You are to listen to the cursed radio music of life and to reverence the spirit behind it and to laugh at its distortions.”

— Hermann Hesse

“It was clear that the composer no longer consoled himself with the thought that music could express everything and did not require verbal commentary.”

— Solomon Volkov

The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from…

— Milton Babbitt

“he was the indisputable master of the night, bopping as he churned out an endless assortment of music designed to trigger the primal human…

— Zita Harrison

“For a celebrity he has an awful excess of sensibility, and is very anxious about one's opinion of him. Perhaps it comes of being…

— Zen Cho

“Then I noticed, in all my pain and sickness,what music it was that like crackled and boomed on the sound-track, and it was Ludwig…

— Anthony Burgess