Darius Milhaud quotes

Darius Milhaud quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I had a marvelously happy childhood.”
-- Darius Milhaud

#Childhood Quotes
“The most difficult thing in music is still to write a melody of several bars which can be self-sufficient. That is the secret of music. While the technique should be as perfected as possible, that is a lesser essential Anybody can acquire a brilliant technique Melody alone permits a work to survive.”
-- Darius Milhaud

#Writing Quotes #Self Quotes #Secret Quotes
“It is curious how people go on believing that the musician knows less about what he is doing than those that judge him.”
-- Darius Milhaud

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #Judging Quotes

“From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.”

Source : "Why? New Eichmann Notes Try to Explain" by Roger Cohen, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 1999.
“I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.”
“I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.”
“I had a happy childhood.”
“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a bookâ€”that string of confused, alien ciphersâ€”shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.”
“Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.”
“One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.”

Source : Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.85, Penguin
“No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.”

Source : Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.69, Penguin
“Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.”
“Childhood is but change made gay and visible ...”

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