"Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness.……" — Johannes Brahms
"Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it."
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19 Quotes by Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms has 19 quotes on this site.
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Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of…
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If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.
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It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
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Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven…
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A symphony is no joke.
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Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my…
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We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of…
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One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing…
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Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.
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The idea comes to me from outside of me - and is like a gift. I then take the idea…
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Study Bach. There you will find everything.
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The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what…
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More Composition Quotes
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,…
— Joseph Addison
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;…
— Annie Besant
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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult…
— Nick Clegg
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When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together.…
— Tadao Ando
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To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.
— Christopher Tunnard
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When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition,…
— Joseph Addison
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In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of…
— Julia Cameron
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He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to…
— Maurice Ravel
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As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to…
— Isaac Newton
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If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars,…
— Guglielmo Marconi
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