Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Ernest Newman

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English critic Ernest Newman.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Ernest Newman

Ernest Newman was an English music critic and musicologist. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians describes him as "the most celebrated British music critic in the first half of the 20th century." His style of criticism, aiming at intellectual objectivity in contrast to the more subjective approach of other critics, such as Neville Cardus, was reflected in his books on Richard Wagner, Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss and others. He was music critic of The Sunday Times from 1920 until his death nearly forty years later. His other positions included chief music critic of The Birmingham Post from 1906 to 1919, as well as brief stints as the chief music critic for The Guardian (1905–1906) and The Observer (1919).

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. — © Ernest Newman
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.
The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks.
For my part, if I had the power I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period - with a possible exception in the case of the Creation.
You may help a lame dog over a stile but he is still a lame dog on the other side.
I had no idea Stravinsky disliked Debussy so much as this.
The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
The great-at-anything do not set to work because they are inspired, but rather become inspired because they are working. They don't waste time waiting for inspiration.
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