When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
The Unicorn Sonata... tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes -… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes. — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I really love how the andante from the "A minor Sonata" sounds on the mandolin. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
For me, even my break time I like to pull out the bow and just go over a Vivaldi sonata and keep… — Chris Wyse Copy Share Image
The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we… — Andrew Sarris Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The other option we have are medication treatments. So you'll have the treatments such as Ambien, Lunesta, Sonata, and we'll also have… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
Scarlatti [Kirkpatrick] started writing sonatas when he was 66 and the idea that he ran off 500 or so after he was… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
I have no idea what was the first record I ever bought, but I think I asked my mom to buy me...… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas For wind instruments was… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
Many Introverts are also "highly sensitive," which sounds poetic, but is actually a technical term in psychology. If you are a sensitive… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Life is a refining process. Our response to it determines whether we'll be ground down or polished up. On a piano, one… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
A strange adventure befell me while I was playing my Sonata in B flat minor before some English friends. I had played… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and… — Ian Hornak Copy Share Image
I consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece. Think about it this way: If you think about a pianist who… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses. — Alexander Scriabin Copy Share Image
Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting. — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more.… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Composing a concert is like composing a menu… If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude,… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“But that some sonatas of Beethoven are written tragic no one can gainsay; yet they can triumph or despair as the player… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians say the… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
I think anybody who's willing to really sink their teeth into a work like the Hammerklavier, which is a very interesting, different… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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