Sonatas Quotes

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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
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
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
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating… — Peter Ackroyd
There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians say the greatest sonatas are… — Jacqueline Carey
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
The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists. — Artur Schnabel
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
Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias:… — Tom Rachman
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
Life is a refining process. Our response to it determines whether we'll be ground down or polished up. On a piano, one person sits down… — Barbara Johnson
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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