I know perfectly well that no musician can make his thoughts or his talents different to what Heaven has made them; but I also know that if Heaven had given him good ones, he must also be able to develop… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition, or that which it implies, is the direct negation of the term self-control. In order… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.... — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
“I stayed at home because I prefer to be in my own room, with my own family, or in my garden — which is… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
I dislike nothing more than finding fault with a man's nature or talent; it only depresses and worries and does no good; one cannot… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
I know perfectly well that no musician can make his thoughts or his talents different to what Heaven has made them; but I also… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public,… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as though I… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
These, too, seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Pray to God that He might create is us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us. — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Such a divine profession is art! When everything else looks so stale and disgustingly vacuous, so enthralls even the littlest real effort of art… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
