"If you want to know whether you have……" — Joseph Haydn
"If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment."
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Joseph Haydn
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12 Quotes by Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn has 12 quotes on this site.
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Cheer up, children, I am all right.
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The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early…
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Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result…
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Whenever I think of God I can only conceive of Him as a Being infinitely great and infinitely good. This…
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I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to…
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I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.
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I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.
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I would give my best quartet for a good razor,
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I'm going to commune with God and I must be appropriately dressed!
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There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.
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I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced…
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More Accompaniment Quotes
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Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping…
— Julie Burchill
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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
— Oscar Wilde
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The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which…
— William Kingdon Clifford
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The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are…
— William Henry Chamberlin
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Money is misunderstood. The fact is if you want to be successful - the money will follow you. If you…
— Frank Lowy
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Red wine is a great accompaniment to meat.
— Mario Lemieux
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It's an accompaniment to life. It's not something that I do to rap; I smoke when I open my eyes...I…
— Action Bronson
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Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus.…
— Amy Tan
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When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The women went berserk, to the accompaniment of 'When a Man Loves a Woman.' It was all bass and drums;…
— Sue Margolis
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I had always been singing, all of my life, but it wasn't until I got out of high school and…
— Jason Mraz
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