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Opera Composer Inspirational Quotes (32)

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Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
Anthony Brandt
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Love forbids you not to love.
Umberto Giordano
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Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.
Alexander Borodin
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Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.
Alexander Borodin
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There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.
Carlisle Floyd
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The key to success is often the ability to adapt
Anthony Brandt
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I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
Carlisle Floyd
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The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.
Giacomo Puccini
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The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth.
Claudio Monteverdi
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I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns.
Jules Massenet
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I'm working, but there is so much still to be done! And it frightens me to think of my weight of years. But on we go, without fear or hesitation!
Giacomo Puccini
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I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
Carlisle Floyd
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The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
Carlisle Floyd
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What a wonderful thing it is to be sure of one's faith! How wonderful to be a member of the evangelical church, which preaches the free grace of God through Christ as the hope of sinners! If we were to rely on our works-my God, what would become of us?
George Frideric Handel
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Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
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Text first, rhythm second, melody third.
Claudio Monteverdi
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
Carlisle Floyd
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Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.
Giacomo Puccini
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It pleased the Almighty, to whose great will Holy Will I submit myself with Christian submission.
George Frideric Handel
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Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . . Is this not form?
Giacomo Puccini
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If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect.
Jules Massenet
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I am a composer in search of oblivion and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.
Alexander Borodin
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Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
Carlisle Floyd
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Learn all there is to learn, and then choose your own path.
George Frideric Handel
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