Ellen Taaffe Zwilich famous quotes

All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life and living.
-- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

#Music #Style #Method

I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee.
-- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

#Frustration #Play #Knees

Composition can't really be taught, it is a lifelong learning.
-- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

#Taught #Lifelong Learning #Lifelong

When you try to do something you've never done before, you risk falling on your face.
-- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

#Fall #Risk #Trying

If you're a composer, there's never a moment you're not working.
-- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

#Moments #Composer

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.

It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Isn't television glamourous?

Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.

EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

It's not the method, it's the mindset.

I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.

Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.