Famous quotes containing the words composer and/or background:
“A nation creates music—the composer only arranges it.”
—Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857)
“Pilate with his question “What is truth?” is gladly trotted out these days as an advocate of Christ, so as to arouse the suspicion that everything known and knowable is an illusion and to erect the cross upon that gruesome background of the impossibility of knowledge.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)