Famous quotes containing the words american and/or composers:
“The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)
“More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)