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As for my own music, I've nev...

As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.

Samuel Barber 6 quotes

I was 7 years old when I bega...

I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.

Samuel Barber 6 quotes

I guess, for better or for wo...

I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

Samuel Barber 6 quotes

I was supposed to be a doctor...

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

Samuel Barber 6 quotes

I think that what's been hold...

I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage.

Samuel Barber 6 quotes

I've had little success in in...

I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of the Stravinsky 'inner circle.'

Samuel Barber 6 quotes

I have always believed that I...

I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.

Samuel Barber 6 quotes

I have always believed that I ...

I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.

Samuel Barber 6 quotes

How awful that the artist has ...

How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society,

Samuel Barber 6 quotes

I was meant to be a composer a...

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

Samuel Barber 6 quotes

I was supposed to be a doctor....

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

Samuel Barber 6 quotes

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof...

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

Samuel Barber 6 quotes

I was meant to be a composer a...

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

Samuel Barber 6 quotes

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