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"The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted."

":5. But never let the horns and woodwind out of your sight: if you can hear them at all they are still too strong."

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🇬🇧Ralph Vaughan Williams

Music

1872–1958

"The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation."

"Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect."

"I truly enjoy working with other composers. You can learn a lot from each other and it's always amazing to see what the other composer comes up with."

"New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate."

"The best teacher is the one who himself has had to struggle to learn."

"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them."

"It's your language. I'm just trying to use it."

"Dave Bartholomew Interview NAMM Oral History Library"

"Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!"

"You married an angel and a devil mixed together there, mrs. Horowitz."

"Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing."

"Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny."

"A prophet such as we could use again today, strong, zealous, angry and gloomy in opposition to the leaders, the masses, indeed the whole world."

"To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations."

"They take your drawers off for you, they show your ass, they sell bullshit, they call themselves 'niggaz' and the women 'bitches' and 'hos' and it's fine with everybody. That's what the essence of decadence is."

"I’m deeply grateful to be Jewish. I feel it’s enriched my life and I feel very strongly about Jewishness."

"In fact the hardest part is trying to forget music when I'm not conducting it."

"I actually don't like playing the piano or conducting the orchestra.There is always an exchange of energies,which is not even.It's one against 80."

"Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician."

"I always dreamed in my youth of a great, consuming love. I was often disappointed and returned each time to my music for consolation. It never failed me."

"The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know."

"It's that goddamned motherfucking 'Machine Gun.'"

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🇩🇪Joseph Martin Kraus

Music

1756–1792

"The symphony he wrote here in Vienna especially for me will be regarded as a masterpiece for centuries to come; believe me, there are few people who can compose something like that."

"My position has remained the same. I have had more to do, at first hand, with European policy than any other person in politics today."

"I feel very friendly towards your country, but make no mistake I will always be an Indian first."

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🇩🇪Johann Sebastian Bach

Music

Baroque music

1685–1750

"I have this to say about Bach's works: Listen, play, love, revere — and keep your trap shut."

"Compared with this art, Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire is lukewarm lemonade."

"Germany has no blame for the Second World War"

"My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound."

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