Famous quotes containing the words composer and/or background:
“A nation creates music—the composer only arranges it.”
—Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857)
“They were more than hostile. In the first place, I was a south Georgian and I was looked upon as a fiscal conservative, and the Atlanta newspapers quite erroneously, because they didn’t know anything about me or my background here in Plains, decided that I was also a racial conservative.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)