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Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind...
Tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
Beethoven can write music, thank God -- but he can do nothing else on earth.
Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the...
Applaud friends, the comedy is over.
Source: Said on his deathbed.
-- Ludwig van...
When I am . . . traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is...
Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at once. What a delight this is! All this...
My subject enlarges itself, becomes methodized and define, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete...
[T]o talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to...
One must not make oneself cheap here -- that is a cardinal point -- or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent...
It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn . . . as a matter of interdisciplinary...
Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Source: The...
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the...
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just...
Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which...
Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on the...
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.
Source: In The Guinness Book...
Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.
Source: Quoted in Evan Esar (ed.),...
One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' from a first hearing, and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second...
Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . ....