Sonatas Quotes

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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
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
Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart… — David Ogilvy
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
What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the… — Henry Miller
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
Many Introverts are also "highly sensitive," which sounds poetic, but is actually a technical term in psychology. If you are a sensitive sort, then you're… — Susan Cain
Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject:… — Jacques Barzun

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