Famous quotes containing the words american and/or composer:
“If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)