Quotes on Classical Composers

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33")