“The composer is seldom a great theorist; the theorist is never a great composer. Each is equally fatal to and essential in the other.”
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The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IX - A Painter's Views on Painting
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Shreya Ghoshal (1984) Indian playback singer
Theory about composers http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/music/news/National-Award-made-me-conscious-Shreya/articleshow/5501985.cms
John Ruskin book Modern Painters
Volume V, part VIII, chapter I, section 2 (1860).
Modern Painters (1843-1860)
“Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.”
Gustav Holst (1874–1934) English composer
Cited in Imogen Holst The Music of Gustav Holst (1951) p. 73 as "His favourite piece of advice".
Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body, p 49
Dinu Lipatti (1917–1950) Pianist, Composer
Listening Beethoven's F minor Quartet; Quoted by Walter Legge, in Walter Legge: Words and Music (1998) edited by Alan Sanders
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet
"We thought: we're poor"
We thought we were beggars, we thought we had nothing at all
But then when we started to lose one thing after another,
Each day became
A memorial day -
And then we made songs
Of great divine generosity
And of our former riches.
Translated by Ilya Shambat (2001)
White Flock (1917)
Beth Anderson (1950) American neo-romantic composer
What Makes Music Woman Oriented (1996)