Schubert Quotes

26 quotes by 22 authors

But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of… — Isabelle Huppert
In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny… — Edward Gorey
Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy when he was… — Cecilia Bartoli
The reason why Schubert is celebrated so much today, lies rather in the fact that there has been nobody else like him - not before… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of… — Alfred Brendel
Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of… — Carson McCullers
With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart. — Tom Wopat
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. — Anne Stevenson
I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived.... His songs are exquisite… — George Gershwin
But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I… — Kathleen Battle
From the opening lines, Sleeping with Schubert is a hilarious, whimsical romp through the looking glass of a great musical mystery. The writing snaps, crackles,… — Jonis Agee
I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.' — Yoko Ono
We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's… — George Steiner
I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some… — Colm Toibin
That's why I like listening to Schubert while I'm driving. Like I said, it's because all his performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic kind of… — Haruki Murakami
I've just been playing the Trout Quintet on the phonograph. Listening to the andantino makes me want to be a trout myself. You can't help… — Sophie Scholl
As to...old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure feeling. And you… — C.S. Lewis

Who Wrote These Schubert Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 26 Schubert Quotes as follows: