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“Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.”
“Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.”
“The Sonata is an essentially dramatic art form combining the emotional range in vivid presentation of a full-size stage drama with the terseness of a short story.”
“The sonatas of Mozart are unique they are too easy for children and too difficult for artists.”
“Throughout my career nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at I feel as bad as I did the very first time.”
“Who is there that in logical words can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that!”
“You know what you do when you shit singing is the same thing only up!”
“When people hear good music it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.”
“Light quirks of music broken and uneven make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven.”
“Richard Wagner a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.”
“One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' from a first hearing and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time.”
“Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony but organically I am incapable of a tune.”
“Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra not choreography to the audience.”
“Opera in English is in the main just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.”
“Music is only sound expressing certain patterns so to what extent is that sound architecture and to what extent theatre?”
“Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradicto...”
“Music is your own experience your thoughts your wisdom. If you don't live it it won't come out of your horn.”
“The good composer is slowly discovered the bad composer is slowly found out.”
“Music first and last should sound well should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.”
“I am tired before the concert not afterward.”
