Richard Strauss Quotes

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• Never look at the trombones, you'll just encourage them.
• Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen.
• The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play.
• I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.
• Its a funny thing Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und Verklärung.
• He'd be better off shoveling snow.
• Never look at the brass - it only encourages them.
• I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
• Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too loud.
• Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.
• The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
• Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.

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