Quotes by Women Composers

When played at the right sound level, which is quite high and exciting, the tones in this music will cause your ears to act as neurophonic instruments that emit sounds that will seem to be issuing directly from your head.

Starting a piece is the worst, and that can stretch from one day to three weeks of agony. The cats run and hide.

The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?

The relationship of feminism to my work and the evolution of the form of my music are in violent flux.

When I looked at my own self and my own depression, it was funny. It was very sad, but it was also very funny.

He died alone and forgotten and only in modern times has he come up as a genius composer and a brilliant visionary.

Well, this is the end of a perfect day,
Near the end of a journey, too.

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

The most terrible thing of all is happy love, for then there is fear in everything.

A child isn't born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Let's just say that when I realized that I didn't want to grow up, the damage was already done. Knowing that being grown up was no swell place to be means that you are grown up enough to notice. And you can't go back from there. You have to forge another route, draw your own map.

Hiromi Uehara
Hiromi Uehara
Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional

What good it does one to have a hearty, uncontrollable fit of laughter.

You have to eat oatmeal or you'll dry up. Anybody knows that.

If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them, but all power of judging their value.