Samuel Barber Quotes

• I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

  Samuel Barber

  Music, Football, Destiny

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

  Samuel Barber

  Doctors, Princeton, Supposed To Be

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• How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society.

  Samuel Barber

  Artist, Dinner, Awful

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• I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.

  Samuel Barber

  Ideas, Silence, Needs

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• He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

  Samuel Barber

  Music, Poet, Currents

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