Sonata Quotes
24 quotes by 22 authors
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and…
— Samuel Beckett
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Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a…
— Alfred Whitney Griswold
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The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry…
— Rollo May
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The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play…
— Alan Watts
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Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then…
— Terry Pratchett
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Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we are likely to…
— Andrew Sarris
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When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a particular window of…
— Daniel Gilbert
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As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept that these will…
— Jeremy Denk
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Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting…
— Arthur Rubinstein
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When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata in my head…
— Arthur Rubinstein
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My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.
— Alexander Scriabin
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I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smell, touch and…
— Nikola Tesla
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A strange adventure befell me while I was playing my Sonata in B flat minor before some English friends. I had played the Allegro and…
— Frederic Chopin
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No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two…
— Milan Kundera
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Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down…
— Elliott Carter
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What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in architecturalcontinuity…
— Ian Hornak
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I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.
— Sergei Prokofiev
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Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.
— David Gelernter
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Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really…
— Leo Tolstoy
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There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Who Wrote These Sonata Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 24 Sonata Quotes as follows: