Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Sir Arthur Sullivan

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English composer Sir Arthur Sullivan.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan was an English composer. He is best known for 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. His works include 24 operas, 11 major orchestral works, ten choral works and oratorios, two ballets, incidental music to several plays, and numerous church pieces, songs, and piano and chamber pieces. His hymns and songs include "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "The Lost Chord".

English - Composer | May 13, 1842 - November 22, 1900

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Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.

Sir Arthur Sullivan

One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully.

Sir Arthur Sullivan

Tax reform has been used as a crutch, as a smokescreen and as candy coating for the hard choices that have to be made.

Sir Arthur Sullivan

The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.

Sir Arthur Sullivan

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Sir Arthur Sullivan

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