Virgil Thomson Quotes: top 23 famous quotes about Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Virgil Thomson quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish. — Virgil Thomson

A libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen bya man who should never have attempted it. — Virgil Thomson

I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees. — Virgil Thomson

I look at you and I write down what I hear. — Virgil Thomson

Lina laughed. So did Doon. A look went between them, like a quick current of electricity — Jeanne DuPrau

You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way. — Virgil Thomson

Spokes unite in the hub of a wheel. — Laozi

Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians. — Virgil Thomson

Let your mind alone, and see what happens. — Virgil Thomson

I don't have to worry No matter what they do to it, it works. — Virgil Thomson

Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music. — Virgil Thomson

Musicians own music because music owns them. — Virgil Thomson

[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot. — James Laughlin

Don't believe her. — Lauren Oliver

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played. — Virgil Thomson

I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970. — Virgil Thomson

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise. — Virgil Thomson

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down. — Virgil Thomson

Life is like that short visit on the road. Prayer is for those who wish to talk to God. Meditation is for those who only want to listen to him. — Christopher Pike

If you don't believe that God ordains everything that comes to pass, you don't believe in God." I — R.C. Sproul

I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the project. — Peggy Guggenheim

I don't go around regretting things that don't happen. — Virgil Thomson

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good. — Virgil Thomson