Composer quotes

Discover quotes from prolific composers who have left a mark on music history. Dive into the minds of these creative geniuses and be inspired by their words.

Yeah, I know there's no right answer. All I know for sure is that time keeps on flowing like a river, and a river eventually leads to the ocean. Maybe I will try swimming against the current.

- Naruo Taneda

I want to hear who you are, not what you have.

- Nino

Well, if they're dead, then that's the end of it. Crying about it gets you nothing but an empty stomach

- Ylva

The shorter way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

When I am completely by myself, entirely alone or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I think that if you use the so-called 'strong words' you'll get your point across faster and you can save a lot of beating around the bush. Why are people so afraid of words? Sometimes the dumbest thing that gets said makes the point for you.

- Frank Zappa

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

- Frank Zappa

Who is not a love seeker when December comes? Even children pray to Santa Claus.

- Rod McKuen

Watch the indolent butterfly playing on the tall flower in the yard and think about the sun going down. It always does you know.

- Rod McKuen

This is the way it was while I was waiting for your eyes to find me.

- Rod McKuen

These long years later it is worse for I remember what it was as well as what it might have been.

- Rod McKuen

Thank you for the sun you brought this morning even though the sky was full of clouds.

- Rod McKuen

Sorry no one could see how beautifully happy we were.

- Rod McKuen

Now is next to nothing compared to where I've been.

- Rod McKuen

It's nice sometimes to open up the heart a little and let some hurt come in. It proves you're still alive.

- Rod McKuen

I've been going a long time now along the way I've learned some things. You have to make the good times yourself take the little times and make them into big times and save the times that are all right for the ones that aren't so good.

- Rod McKuen

I'm not the first man or the last who had a thirst to leave the past.

- Rod McKuen