Schubert Quotes
26 quotes by 22 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
— Anne Stevenson
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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
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But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow.
— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.
— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: