Famous quotes containing the words american and/or composer:
“I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)
“A nation creates music—the composer only arranges it.”
—Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857)