Famous quotes containing the words american and/or composer:
“The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die.”
—John Steinbeck (1902–1968)
“A nation creates music—the composer only arranges it.”
—Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857)