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The way to write American musi...

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 28 quotes

I've never known a musician wh...

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 28 quotes

I thought of myself as a speci...

I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing musical virtue in distress.

Virgil Thomson 28 quotes

I seem to write an opera about...

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 28 quotes

Try a thing you haven't done t...

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over
the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to
figure out whether you like it or not.

Virgil Thomson 28 quotes

I said to my friends that if I...

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

Virgil Thomson 28 quotes

Musicians own music because mu...

Musicians own music because music owns them.

Virgil Thomson 28 quotes

In Paris, you learn wit, in Lo...

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

Virgil Thomson 28 quotes

Try a thing you haven't done t...

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Virgil Thomson 28 quotes

A libretto that should never h...

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 28 quotes

I got myself into a lovely lit...

I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with AndrГ© Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries.

Virgil Thomson 28 quotes

The description and explanatio...

The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a gift for judgment. If you have it, you can say anything you like. If you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it.

Virgil Thomson 28 quotes

Reviewing music or reviewing a...

Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.

Virgil Thomson 28 quotes

I seem to write an opera about...

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 28 quotes

I don't care what other critic...

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

Virgil Thomson 28 quotes

You explain how it went, and a...

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

Virgil Thomson 28 quotes

I don't go around regretting t...

I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.

Virgil Thomson 28 quotes

Every composer's music reflect...

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 28 quotes

I listened to the pure crystal...

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

Virgil Thomson 28 quotes

I've never known a musician wh...

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.

Virgil Thomson 28 quotes

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