Arthur Honegger Quotes

The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.

Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.

The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.

Music is geometry in time.

The public doesn't want new music the main thing that it demands of a composer is that he be dead.