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" A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. "

Burt Bacharach
" A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing." "

Sir Arnold Bax
" I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose. "

Ludwig van Beethoven
" Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. "

Ludwig van Beethoven
" The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there. "

Irving Berlin
" There's no business like show business. "

Irving Berlin
" Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. "

Hector Berlioz
" Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. "

Leonard Bernstein
" I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. "

John Cage
" If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience. "

John Cage
" 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."

John Cage
" Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness. "

Aaron Copland
" The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.' "

Aaron Copland
" To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. "

Aaron Copland
" I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. "

Noel Coward
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