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Music Critic Inspirational Quotes (3935)

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Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.
George Bernard Shaw
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Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time... Ballads, polonaises, even a whole concerto may have been lost forever up your des durka, I can't tell you how many. I have been so deeply engulfed in my love for you I have hardly created anything.
Claude Debussy
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What doesn't kill you make you stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The last Christian died on a cross.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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And the whole online thing is like, I just, that to me is a world that doesn't exist. It's not something you could touch or lick or smell. And as my eyes get worse, it's very hard to read. And there's no money in it. I mean, it's like they pay, like the best you can go is 1970 prices.
Richard Meltzer
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A married philosopher belongs to comedy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.
Robert Schumann
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Some men are born posthumously.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.
Neville Cardus
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Marriages that made out of love (so-called love-matches) have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Rolling Stones are constantly changing, but beneath the changes they remain the most formal of rock bands. Their successive releases have been continuous extensions of their approach, not radical redefinitions, as has so often been the case with the Beatles.
Jon Landau
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All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
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I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.
Virgil Thomson
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I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries.
Virgil Thomson
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A libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen bya man who should never have attempted it.
Virgil Thomson
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I seem to write an opera about every 20 years if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.
Virgil Thomson
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I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.
Virgil Thomson
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Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.
Virgil Thomson
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Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.
Virgil Thomson
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Let your mind alone, and see what happens.
Virgil Thomson
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In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
Virgil Thomson
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O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about
Piero Scaruffi
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