Famous quotes containing the words american and/or composer:
“So we think of Marilyn who was every man’s love affair with America. Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“A nation creates music—the composer only arranges it.”
—Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857)