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Hey guys! Haven’t made a quotes masterpost in a while, so I created one for the composes! And I know it’s a different header format, but I wanted to try it out! As always, I hope you enjoy these quotes and find them inspirational, like I have.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• “I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”

Johannes Brahms

• “Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.”

Virgil Thomson

• “Let your mind alone, and see what happens.”
• “I don’t go around regretting things that don’t happen.”
• “Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.”

Franz Schubert

• “Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.”
• “The moment is supreme.”
• “The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.”
• “You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.”

Gustav Mahler

• “It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.”
• “Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.”
• “A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.”
• “It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.”
• “Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one’s contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one’s way.”
• “The point is not to take the world’s opinion as a guiding star but to go one’s way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.”
• “I don’t let myself get carried away by my own ideas – I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.”

Claude Debussy

• “A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.”
• “Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.”

John Cage

• “We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.”
• “We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.”
• “The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.”
• “I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”
• “There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.”
• “We need not destroy the past. It is gone.”
• “When we separate music from life we get art.”

Leonard Bernstein

• “To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”

Franz Liszt

• “Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.”
• “Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.”

George Gershwin

• “Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise.”
• “True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.”
• “I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.”
• “It is always possible to create something original.”

Ludwig van Beethoven

• “I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.”
• “What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.”
• “This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.”
• “Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the divine.”