Samuel Adler Quotes

born 1928 Germany

Samuel Adler (born March 4, 1928, in Mannheim, Germany) is a leading American conductor, composer, author, lecturer and violinist who has served for decades on the faculty of the Eastman School of Music and the Juillard School of Music

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Too much emphasis is placed upon the technical aspect of contemporary music and not enough on its communicative and aesthetic impact.

To me, the wonderful thing about music is a love affair between the performer and the composer, and between the composer and his audience. This love affair is a tripartite thing.

a radio interview with Bruce Duffie in Chicago on WNIB (1992)

I don’t understand any music! I feel it. I want them to feel something! I don’t want them to understand it.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samuel Adler (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.