I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible. Samuel Barber More Quotes by Samuel Barber More Quotes From Samuel Barber 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 destinymusicfootball 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 princetonsupposed-to-bedoctors How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society. Samuel Barber dinnerawfulartist 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 silenceideasneeds He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed. Samuel Barber currentspoetmusic I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage. Samuel Barber greatstylecouragebelieve I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story. Samuel Barber oldstorypianoyears There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand. Samuel Barber understanddifficultmusicreason As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer. Samuel Barber feelmy-ownmusicbook I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that. Samuel Barber i-ambetterbeinglife I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of the Stravinsky 'inner circle.' Samuel Barber circlenewneversuccess
