Virgil Thomson Quotations

They look better than we do; they can wear all colors on stage. We're sort of oyster-colored.

I don't have to worry No matter what they do to it, it works.

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

Falsely conceived and rather clumsily executed crooked folklore and halfway opera.

Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.

I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.

Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.

Musicians own music because music owns them.