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Samuel Barber Quotes
American pianist and composer (d. 1981)
, Birth:
9-3-1910
, Death:
23-1-1981
1.
I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.
Samuel Barber
2.
How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society.
Samuel Barber
3.
I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
Samuel Barber
4.
I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.
Samuel Barber
5.
He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.
Samuel Barber
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