"And do you agree with me, that the……" — Felix Mendelssohn
"And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what is great, and to bow to it and acknowledge it and not attempt to extinguish great flames for the sake of making his own rushlight burn more brightly?"
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Felix Mendelssohn
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12 Quotes by Felix Mendelssohn
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And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and…
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People usually complain that music is so ambiguous, and what they are supposed to think when they hear it is…
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Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because…
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Life and art are not two different things....
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It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise....
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The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.
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This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it…
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I know perfectly well that no musician can make his thoughts or his talents different to what Heaven has made…
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Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us…
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These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul…
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People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear,…
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