Things Composers Never Said

[EdgeleyRob]

"Oh I'm Spartak til I die"

Shostakovich

[Suffolkcoastal]

Here's a few more.

I just can't get on with piano, I'm taking up the Violin instead - F Chopin

Just going to remove that coat button before I meet Mattheson, it'll get in the way - G F Handel

Think I'll stay with Mushroom farming - G Lloyd

No alcohol for me I'm tea total - M Arnold

Now to compose an opera with a plot that anyone can comprehend - M Tippett before writing the libretto for A Midsummer Marriage

I love working for Prince-Archbishop Colloredo, one couldn't want a better employer - W A Mozart

My favourite composer? well that's Tchaikovsky - P Boulez

Starting a symphony with tremolo violins, done that once, now for something different for the rest - A Bruckner

Alexander Glazunov to conduct premiere of my 1st Symphony? Couldn't be in safer hands - S Rachmaninov

What the hell was I dreaming about last night - can't remember - I Stravinsky c1910

I'm thinking of a having a vasectomy - J S Bach after birth of 1st son

Thart's enough for tonight!

[LeMartinPecheur]

Catholic, lower-middle class, and proud! - (Sir) Edward Elgar

You really can get sick of a certain tenor voice - B Britten

Listen, this folk dance fits perfectly in counterpoint with Greensleeves - G Holst (sentiment courtesy of Mrs LMP)

I get all my best ideas in Eastbourne - C Debussy

Me ironical? Never in a million years! - D Shostakovich

Me ironical? Never in a million years Joe, trust me on this! - D Shostakovich

Memo. Buy Toetectors for next rehearsal!!!!! - J B Lully

We loathe the soprano voice. And person. - W A Mozart and R Strauss

My life has been wasted. I never really did anything decent after Die Feen and the C major symphony. - R Wagner

[Barbirollians]

I wish I could write a good tune - Lachenmann

If I knew the washboard sounded like that I would have written a concerto for it years ago - Brahms

I was inspired to write this after treading on my cat's tail - Ferneyhough

[richardfinegold]

"Time to relax in my old age"--Havergal Brian

"I have always regretted not being circumsized"--Richard Wagner

"No mind altering substances for me"-Hector Berlioz

[Bryn]

If I knew the washboard sounded like that I would have written a concerto for it years ago - Ferneyhough

I was inspired to write this after treading on my cat's tail - Brahms

[Barbirollians]

If I knew the washboard sounded like that I would have written a concerto for it years ago - Ferneyhough

I was inspired to write this after treading on my cat's tail - Brahms

If you are going to copy my posts at least get the composers the right way round .

[Pabmusic]

I've got my whole library on my iPad - Charles Alkan
Not sure I don't prefer 4'34" - John Cage
Time for a change - John Adams
Give me an A! - György Ligeti
You're too loud! - George Antheil
We'll have a whip-round after the show - Percy Grainger

[P. G. Tipps]

'Yvonne, for God's sake pass me that shotgun, I can't hear myself compose for those bloody birds in the garden ... ' ... Olivier Messiaen

'My music is concise, direct and defers to no one. I don't go in for any of this nauseating, self-serving, politically-correct stuff' ... Anton Bruckner, angrily rebutting press criticism of his Eighth Symphony, dedicated to Franz Josef I of Austria.

'Okay, okay, I've never actually been to Fingal's Cave ... I started composing my Hebrides Overture following a midsummer night's dream.' ... Felix Mendelssohn.

[mercia]

Would you believe it - I've walked all this way and they tell me he's moved to Arnstadt - JSB

[visualnickmos]

"Stanzie, if a bloke calls about a Requiem, tell him I'm not in"

WA Mozart

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I must say, this is a great thread.

[Pabmusic]

I must say, this is a great thread.

Who never said that?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Who never said that?

[Nick Armstrong]

I must say, this is a great thread.

Yes, it seems to have brought out the best in the Assembled Company


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He doesn't seem to have featured so far and he cannot be allowed to get away with it:

"Less is More" - F. Liszt