Song Quotes by Heinrich Heine

12 Song quotes by Heinrich Heine

Heine’s verses often linger on the melancholy of a tune, and even a dozen quotes can convey his nuanced view. This modest set serves as a gentle entry point to his lyrical reflections on song.

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Where words leave off, music begins.

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Out of my own great woe I make my little songs.

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When words leave off, music begins.

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Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.

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Where words cease, there music begins.

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Out of my great sorrows, I make little songs.

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Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.

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Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

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“The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.”

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The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

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Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music;…

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The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all…

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Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.

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First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.

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A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.

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Thought is invisible nature.

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“Still is the night, it quiets the streets down, In that window my love would appear; She's long since gone away from this town,…

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The dragon-fly is dancing,— Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers all admire…

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There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

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He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

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