Ambition Quote by Charles Gounod Download Open image “Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.” — Charles Gounod ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambition Despair Turns
Mozart was able to do what he wished in music and he never wished to so what was beyond him. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's - the… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me,… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
“music is the worst of them - roiling and boiling - overly emotionalized on the one hand, overly intellectuallized on the other. Bach and… — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“Perhaps Mozart’s Requiem would be fitting music for the end of the world. She began to hum Dies Irae, recalling its first performance in… — Barry Kirwan Copy Share Image
What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid. — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
My opinion changes rapidly - one minute I can think it is very good and the next time I look at it, I see… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium. — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
“I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.” — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition… — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image
Work towards your goal and dont watch the post size,its either they hate,or like you.there is no room for both sides. — Isaac Buabeng Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
