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"Composers are not all good conductors."
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"When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists."
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"Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast."
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"Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary."
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"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers."
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"In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers."
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"When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song."
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"Many composers today don't know what the human throat is."
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"Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply."
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"The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics."
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"I have tremendous respect for film composers."
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"It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities."
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"Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift."
Art
"The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure."
God
"Of course, experience strengthens one later."
Experience
"I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis."
Action
"Composers are not all good conductors."
Composer
"America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study."
Music
"The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors."
Composer
"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."
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"It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes."
Acting
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