8 inspiring composer quotes
Not only could the great composers write inspiring, uplifting and inspirational music, they also were pretty good at producing a pithy one-liner about the meaning of music, and of life. Here, we list some of the best...
3 March 2017 - 11:28am
1. 'I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame, I simply follow my own feelings' – W.A Mozart
2. 'Art and life are not two separate things' – Felix Mendelssohn
3. 'Without craftmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind' – Johannes Brahms
4. 'Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements' – Giacomo Puccini
5. 'If we understood the world, we would realise that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances' – Jean Sibelius
6. 'No particular culture seems to have a copyright on profound ideas about the world' – Philip Glass
7. 'Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable' – Carl Nielsen