"People usually complain that music is so ambiguous,……" — Felix Mendelssohn
"People usually complain that music is so ambiguous, and what they are supposed to think when they hear it is so unclear, while words are understood by everyone. But for me it is exactly the opposite...what the music I love expresses to me are thoughts not to indefinite for words, but rather too definite."
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Felix Mendelssohn
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12 Quotes by Felix Mendelssohn
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The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.
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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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And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what…
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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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