Luciano Berio Quotes

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.
Luciano Berio

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
Luciano Berio

Arthur Berger Quotes

Sometimes you know you find precious things in the creative process that you couldn't find out of it.
Arthur Berger

Alban Berg Quotes

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.
Alban Berg

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.
Alban Berg

Malcolm Arnold Quotes

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
Malcolm Arnold

Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!
Malcolm Arnold

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
Malcolm Arnold