“In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.”
Quoted in: Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, Evan Esar (ed.), 1949, p. 156.
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German composer, aesthete and influential music critic 1810–1856Related quotes
Parnassus on Wheels (1917)
Context: "Lord!" he said, "when you sell a man a book you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue — you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night — there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean. Jiminy! If I were the baker or the butcher or the broom huckster, people would run to the gate when I came by — just waiting for my stuff. And here I go loaded with everlasting salvation — yes, ma'am, salvation for their little, stunted minds — and it's hard to make 'em see it. That's what makes it worth while — I'm doing something that nobody else from Nazareth, Maine, to Walla Walla, Washington, has ever thought of. It's a new field, but by the bones of Whitman, it's worth while. That's what this country needs — more books!"
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.”
Read from his musical diaries while speaking at St. Vladimir’s Seminary https://vimeo.com/221011528/
“Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before.”
In interview with a Korean newspaper, quoted in: KoreAm Journal, Vol. 17 (2006), p. 79
1970s
“If everything you do is in order to do something else, when do you ever get to the end of it all?”
Source: The "Wind on Fire" Trilogy (2000-2003), Firesong (Book 3), p. 170
“All I got is dreams. Nobody else believes. Nobody else can see. Nobody else but me.”
Song History
Source: Professional Footballer to Catholic Priest: The Story of Fr. Philip Mulryne https://www.tlcm.com.mt/2017/07/27/professional-footballer-to-catholic-priest-the-story-of-fr-philip-mulryne/ (July 2017)