Famous quotes containing the words american and/or composer:
“Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far- reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother’s Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.”
—Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973)
“A nation creates music—the composer only arranges it.”
—Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857)