Virgil Thomson

Quotes by Virgil Thomson

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Composer and critic · American · 1896–1989

American composer and critic (1896–1989)

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“Let your mind alone, and see what happens.”

“I look at you and I write down what I hear.”

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

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

“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.”

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“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
music

“I look at you and I write down what I hear.”
— Virgil Thomson
Down Look You

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

“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
Time Learn You

“Let your mind alone, and see what happens.”
— Virgil Thomson
Mind See Happens

“I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.”
— Virgil Thomson
Care Say Critics

“I got myself into a lovely little—shall we say controversy—with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for ...”
— Virgil Thomson