Famous quotes containing the words american and/or composer:
“The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a lump mass-man toward fraud, simony, murder, and lunacies more vile than those of Commodus or Caracalla.”
—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)
“A nation creates music—the composer only arranges it.”
—Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857)