Constant Lambert: Quotes about music

Constant Lambert was British composer and conductor. Explore interesting quotes on music.

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“The Appalling Popularity of Music.”

Constant Lambert

Source: Music, Ho! (1934), Chapter-heading, p. 200.

“The whole trouble with a folk song is that once you have played it through there is nothing much you can do except play it over again and play it rather louder. Most Russian music, indeed, consists in ringing changes on this device, skilfully disguised though the fact may be.”

Constant Lambert

"The Conflict Between Nationalism and Form", p. 146.
Music, Ho! (1934)

“To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my melancholy duty to point out that all the bomb throwing and guillotining has already taken place.”

Constant Lambert

"The Revolutionary Situation", p. 32.
Music, Ho! (1934)

“Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect.”

Constant Lambert

"Toute réaction est vraie", p. 91.
Music, Ho! (1934)