Famous quotes containing the words american and/or composer:
“Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and our American colleges will recede in their public importance, whilst they grow richer every year.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A nation creates music—the composer only arranges it.”
—Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857)