Brahms Quote by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Chopin, Schubert, and Liszt had no idea of how to write for the piano.

— Glenn Gould

No book was ever written down by any but itself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

— James Huneker

No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.

— Horace

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

— Walter Benjamin

There can be no poetry after Auschwitz.

— Theodor Adorno

“Music, landscape gardening, architecture—there was no start to his talents.”

— Terry Pratchett

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

— Anonymous

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

— Martial

There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries.

— Kwame Dawes

No one can whistle a symphony.

— Halford Luccock

I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography.

— Pierre Boulez