Sonata Quotes

24 Sonata quotes by 22 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses. — Alexander Scriabin
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
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
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
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
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
I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes. — Sergei Prokofiev
Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting. — David Gelernter
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
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: