69 quotes found
“Beethoven can write music thank God - but he can do nothing else on earth.”
“Music should strike fire from the heart of man and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”
“Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy not gold.”
“I want to seize fate by the throat.”
“There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works, and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is, one must be half a trades...”
“...thus do I take my farewell of thee — and indeed sadly — yes that beloved hope — which I brought with me when I came here to be cured at least in a degree — I must wholly abandon, as the leaves o...”
“Nur das Reine im Herzen kann eine gute Suppe machen.”
“Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and sensual life.”
“Fahre fort, übe nicht allein die Kunst, sondern dringe auch in ihr Inneres; sie verdient es, denn nur die Kunst und die Wissenschaft erhöhen den Menschen bis zur Gottheit.”
“I met [Meyerbeer] at the performance of my Battle. Most of the composers then in Vienna were kind enough to undertake something or other in my orchestra, and the young man played the big drum. Ha! ...”
“One clashes with stupidity of all kinds. And then how much money must be spent in advance! The way in which artists are treated is really scandalous. I am compelled to give a third of my receipts t...”
“It is a recognised fact that the greatest composers were likewise the greatest virtuosos; but did they play like the pianists of the present day, who run up and down the keyboard with passages stud...”
“The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.”
“You will hear nothing of me here ... Fidelio? They cannot give it, nor do they want to listen to it. The symphonies? They have no time for them. My concertos? Everyone grinds out only the stuff he ...”
“The day-to-day exhausted me!”
“Ach du erbärmlicher Schuft, was ich scheiße ist besser, als was du je gedacht.”
“Muß es sein? Es muß sein.”
“Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)”
“Ich werde im Himmel hören! (I will hear in heaven!)”
“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable”
