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1. "Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection."
Author: Alban Berg
2. "I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera."
Author: Cecilia Bartoli
3. "Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."
Author: Charles Bukowski
4. "So many important New York musicians were gay, one wit dubbed the American Composers League the Homintern."
Author: Charles Kaiser
5. "Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today."
Author: George Crumb
6. "All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense."
Author: James Tenney
7. "When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them."
Author: Luc Ferrari
8. "But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places."
Author: Michael Tilson Thomas
9. "The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me."
Author: Michael Tilson Thomas
10. "Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now."
Author: Neville Marriner
11. "What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done."
Author: Robert Moog
12. "The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt."
Author: Sergei Rachmaninoff
13. "Since music is a reflection of our mindset and our culture, it is bound to change with time. I am glad that India is such a receiving country and is always open to all kinds of music. Our composers, singers and writers are open to experimenting."
Author: Sonu Nigam
14. "Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also."
Author: Yo Yo Ma

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