top of page

"It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver."

Morton Gould, American Musician

American, Taste

35

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver."

Exlpore more American quotes

"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

American, Trying

"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

American, Americans, Deals

"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

John Steinbeck, American Author

American, Coffee, Pride

"America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."

Ralph Ellison, American Author

American, America, Fate, Prophecy

"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."

Jonathan Frakes, American Actor

American, Baseball, Jazz, Literature

"I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

American, America, Glory, Poor, Years

"I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me."

Michael Pitt, American Actor

"Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom."

Eric Holder, American Public Servant

American, Rights, Osama bin laden, Reading

"Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated."

Tom Chapin, American Musician

"I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates."

Francine Busby, American Politician

American, President, United

Explore more quotes by Morton Gould

"That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer."

"I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people."

"Composing is my life blood."

"It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver."

bottom of page