Quotes by Composers - Page 19

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.
Anthony Burgess
Die, die we all pass away, But don't wear a frown coz it's really okay,And you might try to hide, And you might try to pray,But we all end up remains of the day.
Danny Elfman - The Corpse Bride
I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.
Rufus Wainwright
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."]
Hector Berlioz
[HAMILTON]I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
Lin-Manuel Miranda
As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Stay with me to-night; you must see me die. I have long had the taste of death on my tongue, I smell death, and who will stand by my Constanze, if you do not stay?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Love me for stupid reasons,I like those most.
Sarah Slean
At some point in the night she had a dream. Or it was possible that she was partially awake, and was only remembering a dream? She was alone among the rocks on a dark coast beside the sea. The water surged upward and fell back languidly, and in the distance she heard surf breaking slowly on a sandy shore. It was comforting to be this close to the surface of the ocean and gaze at the intimate nocturnal details of its swelling and ebbing. And as she listened to the faraway breakers rolling up onto the beach, she became aware of another sound entwined with the intermittent crash of waves: a vast horizontal whisper across the bossom of the sea, carrying an ever-repeated phrase, regular as a lighthouse flashing: Dawn will be breaking soon. She listened a long time: again and again the scarcely audible words were whispered across the moving water. A great weight was being lifted slowly from her; little by little her happiness became more complete, and she awoke. Then she lay for a few minutes marveling the dream, and once again fell asleep.
Paul Bowles
Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.
John Powell
Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.
Irving Berlin
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.
Charles Mingus
Those who understand will understand.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Deliver more than you promise and earn the respect and gratitude of the intelligent, the wise, and the honourable.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.
Noël Coward
I thought about the difference between a mama's girl and a daddy's girl. I decided that a daughter who belongs to her daddy expects gifts, while a daughter who belongs to her mama expects a lot more. Not from her mama. From herself.
Victoria Bond
Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know...
Richard Wagner
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The truth will form and fall apart again.
Sarah Slean
Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot?Maybe the lies are all that we've gotBut aren't they beautiful?
Sarah Slean
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To utter a word? no that will only heavy the air you breath, for your eyes speak more then your pretty mouth
William Brade
The truth brings no man a fortune.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.
Noël Coward
I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.
Jaron Lanier
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, orperhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But I amsure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
Aaron Copland
I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans
Charlie Chaplin
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
Frank Zappa
Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy
Ludwig van Beethoven
If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.
Johannes Brahms
The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, 'All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.
Frank Zappa
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.
Leonard Bernstein
Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa
Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?
Frank Zappa
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Charlie Chaplin
My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.
Tom Waits
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant
So many books, so little time.
Frank Zappa
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage
In the end, everything is a gag.
Charlie Chaplin
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
[BURR]I am the one thing in life I can control.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.
Ludwig van Beethoven
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.
Charlie Chaplin
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.
Charlie Chaplin
You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down
Charlie Chaplin
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today.
Jonathan Larson
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Live for each second without hesitation
Elton John
The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last.
Jonathan Larson
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Life is 10 percent what you make itand 90 percent how you take it.
Irving Berlin