Funny Quote by Felix Mendelssohn Download Open image “It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise....” — Felix Mendelssohn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Funny Inspirational Language Love Music Music is Precise
People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words.… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more… — Bono Copy Share Image
The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words. — Bill Haley Copy Share Image
My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine. — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
Music is enough of an expression that it doesn't really matter what the words are or what language it's in. — Gwenno Copy Share Image
But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never… — Lotte Lehmann Copy Share Image
Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind. — Gwen Harwood Copy Share Image
Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
“I stayed at home because I prefer to be in my own room, with my own family, or in my garden — which is… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
I dislike nothing more than finding fault with a man's nature or talent; it only depresses and worries and does no good; one cannot… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
I know perfectly well that no musician can make his thoughts or his talents different to what Heaven has made them; but I also… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public,… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as though I… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
These, too, seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Pray to God that He might create is us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us. — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Such a divine profession is art! When everything else looks so stale and disgustingly vacuous, so enthralls even the littlest real effort of art… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
No one can bar me from joyfully proceeding on what the great masters have left us; after all, to rediscover everything again, should be… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I look at my awesome twitter followers & think to myself, What the hell would I do without them :) — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Congratulations to Facebook on going public with all my private information... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently? — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
