"I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous."
By Peter Tchaikovsky, Russian pianist and composer
"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."
By Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer
"There is nothing more difficult than talking about music."
By Camille Saint-Saens, French composer
"Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth."
By Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer
"There is one god: Bach, and Mendelssohn is his prophet."
By Hector Berlioz, French composer
"Never look at the trombones. It only encourages them."
By Richard Strauss, Austria composer
"I never understood the need for a 'live' audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one."
By Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer
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