Music Quotes

Bela Bartok Quotes Bela Bartok was a Hungarian composer and pianist He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century. Bela Bartok and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hungary’s greatest composers. “I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.” “In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it […]

“The only love affair I have ever had was with music.” “Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.” “We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.” “I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.” “You

Edvard Grieg Quotes Edvard Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the main Romantic era composers. His use and development of Norwegian folk music in his own compositions brought the music of Norway widely known internationally. “I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.” “To

“I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.” “Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.” “Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is

Camille Saint-Saëns Quotes Camille Saint-Saëns was a French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist in the 1800’s. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, the Second Piano Concerto, The First Cello Concerto, Danse macabre, the opera Samson and Delilah, the Third Violin Concerto, and The Carnival of the Animals. Saint-Saëns was a musical prodigy; he

Franz Liszt Quotes Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, and organist of the Romantic era. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time. Liszt had over 700 compositions and was the author of books on Frédéric Chopin and Hungarian Roma music. Image: Photo of composer,

César Franck Quotes César Franck was a Belgian-French composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris in the 1800’s. Franck’s is known for compositions written in his later years, particularly his Symphony in D minor, the Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra, the Prelude, Chorale and Fugue for piano solo, the Sonata for

Bedrich Smetana Quotes Bedrich Smetana was a Czech composer in the 1800’s that was known as the father of Czech music. Internationally he is best known for his opera The Bartered Bride and for the symphonic piece Má vlast (“My Homeland”), which portrays the history and landscape of Smetana’s home. Image: Photo of composer Bedrich

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Quotes Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was an outstanding composer of the late 1800s into the early 20th century. He is best known for his works Sheharazad and Symphonie Espaniol. His influence on composers of his time was significant. Throughout our present-day, he has been a considerable inspiration to Western music composers, mainly through his use of

Peter Tchaikovsky Quotes Peter Tchaikovsky, the famous Russian composer of the 1800s, is best known in our times for his ballets, most significantly, the Nutcracker, which is performed annually by many ballet companies in the United States and Europe. His influence on Russian music in particular and Western classical music overall is immense. Tchaikovsky was