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CLASSICAL
Music - The...
Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind...
Tones that sound,...
Tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
Beethoven can write...
Beethoven can write music, thank God -- but he can do nothing else on earth.
Recommend virtue to...
Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the...
Applaud friends, the...
Applaud friends, the comedy is over.
Source: Said on his deathbed.
-- Ludwig van...
When I am...
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...
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...
My subject enlarges itself, becomes methodized and define, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete...
[T]o talk well...
[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...
One must not make oneself cheap here -- that is a cardinal point -- or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent...
Humor is the...
Humor is the ability to see 3 sides to one coin.
Source: In Quotations to Cheer You...
Inspiration could be...
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
The Great don't...
The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers...
Divine fires do...
Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their...
To see itself...
To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though...
I haven't understood...
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I've felt it.
Source: In The...
Just as appetite...
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the...
A good composer...
A good composer does not imitate, he steals.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
I have learned...
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my...
What gives the...
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
Source: In London Magazine, 1...