“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.” – Igor Stravinsky
“I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.” – Edvard Grieg
“Never look at the trombones. It only encourages them.” – Richard Strauss
“He’d be better off shovelling snow than scribbling on manuscript paper.” – Richard Strauss on Schoenberg
“I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.” – Ludvig van Beethoven
“I have written a chorale both sober and suitable. In it I have put everything I know about boredom. I dedicate this to those who do not like me.” – Erik Satie
“
Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.” – Gioacchino Rossini
“What a good thing this isn’t music.” – Gioacchino Rossini on Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique
“Oh how wonderful, really wonderful opera would be if there were no singers!” – Gioacchino Rossini
“In opera there is always too much singing.” – Claude Debussy
“Bring me coffee before I turn into a goat!” – Johann Sebastian Bach
“Listening to the 5th Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.” – Aaron Copland
“The audience expected something big, something colossal, but they were served instead with some agitated water in a saucer.” – Louis Schnieder on Debussy’s La Mer
“He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.” – Clara Schumann on Liszt
“What a giftless bastard!” – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky on Brahms
“Handel is only fourth rate. He is not even interesting.” – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“Bach on the wrong notes” –
Sergei Prokofiev on Stravinsky
And, saving the best for last…
“Lick my ass up and down” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Feel free to add more! (Also please don’t think that I agree with all of these, I am a huge fan of Symphonie Fantastique and La Mer!!)
fun game: if u listen to a weird variety of things reblog this with 3 bands u like that are completely different from each other and probably shouldnt even be in the same library
also half the people on this post………. y’alls picks are in the whole ass same genre wyd
Just found the BEST 90s/2000s throwback playlist on Spotify so I thought I would share it to help y’all out for those times when you need to be taken back to middle school
This is Halloween from The Nightmare Before Christmas except you can hear it playing, distantly, as you sneak through the woods on All Hallow’s Eve. Finally, you find the source of it – a clearing of evident monsters, all rocking out and celebrating their holiday. You hide in the bushes and watch them, trying your damndest to remain still and unnoticed.
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