Hector Berlioz Quotes

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• Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
• At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
• The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
• It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense…
• It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as…
• Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love
• In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one. It possesses nobility…
• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. (Le temps est un grand maître, dit-on; le malheur est qu'il soit un…
• Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet it seems to…
• Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The…
• Music and love are the wings of the soul.
• The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from…
• Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.
• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

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