Percy Grainger quotes
-
“I do not eat meat, I do not smoke, and I do not drink, and therefore, I do not feel the cold.”
-- Percy GraingerSource : "Percy Grainger". Book by John Bird, p. 253, 1998.
-
“All my life, I have been sickened by everything connected with meat-, fish-, and poultry eating. As a child, I saw apparently nice, kind people wring the necks of fowls, and I thought it foul; and I wondered if I could ever exert any influence to help bring such unworthiness to an end.”
-- Percy GraingerSource : "How I Became a Meat-Shunner". American Vegetarian, Vol. V no. 4, p. 4, December 1946.
-
“The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows.”
-- Percy Grainger
-
“When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.”
-
“My scalp tingled like Christmas candy on a cold tongue.”
Source : Amber Dermont (2013). “The Starboard Sea”, p.53, Hachette UK
-
“It's so important to listen to music, to listen again and again. Eat, sleep and drink music.”
You may also like:
-
Aaron Copland
Composer -
Edvard Grieg
Composer -
Edward Elgar
Composer -
Eric Whitacre
Composer -
Frederick Delius
Composer -
George Gershwin
Composer -
Gustav Holst
Composer -
John Philip Sousa
Composer -
Leopold Stokowski
Conductor -
Malcolm Arnold
Composer -
Michael Sweeney
Composer -
Morton Gould
Composer -
Peter Sculthorpe
Composer -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Composer -
Rudyard Kipling
Writer -
Samuel Barber
Composer -
Marc-Andre Hamelin
Virtuoso