Virgil
Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil /ˈvɜːrdʒᵻl/ in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, are sometimes attributed to him...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth15 October 70
say-anything judgment description
The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a gift for judgment. If you have it, you can say anything you like. If you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it.
care i-dont-care dont-care
I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.
writing style matter
Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.
thank-you musical serious
I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.
discipline lovely asking
I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries.
writing simple wish
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
jobs nice writing
Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.
men accepted should
A libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen bya man who should never have attempted it.
musician known
I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.
inspirational fear failure
Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
feet tree dropping
I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.
mind happens
Let your mind alone, and see what happens.
writing years long
I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.
crush paris rivals
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.