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A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the...
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
Source: In Friendly...
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not believe trying to say it in...
The important thing is never to let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries; to continue steadfastly...
If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
Source: In Friendly...
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
Source:...
The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create...
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
People don't very much like things that are beautiful -- they are so far from their nasty little...
You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
Source: Attila.
-- Giuseppe...
I adore art . . . when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and...
Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening . . . And now along...
They were all churning out operas of mine. It was clearly impossible for me to work under such conditions, so I hired...
Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his...
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument...
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the...
I have always kept one end in view, namely . . . to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of...
I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed . . . equally...
My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in...