Brahms Quote by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Download Open image “When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".” — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brahms Extras Graves Joy Music Spirit
The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying… — Hugo Wolf Copy Share Image
“At breakfast, I might pass a Brahms symphony in my head. Then I am called to the phone, and half an hour later I… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his. — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in the great soundtrack of our lives there are no words, there are only emotions; I believe this is why God gave us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Brahms stayed an extra day to hear my [Fifth] Symphony and was very kind ... I like his honesty and open-mindedness. Neither he nor… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
Brahms is life-changing every time. And though I love him, I can't say that about Mompou. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
“And when my spirit wants no stimulus or nourishment save music, I know it is to be sought in cemeteries: the musicians hide in… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The feeling of joy came up in me again the way the lyric of a song might remind a man on the edge of… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
I have put my whole soul into this work [The Pathetique Symphony] . . . You cannot imagine what joy I feel at the… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
Only music clarifies, reconciles, and consoles. But it is not a straw just barely clutched at. It is a faithful friend, protector, and comforter,… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is a purely… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
Music possesses much richer means of expression and it is a more subtle medium for translating the 1000 shifting moments of the feelings of… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes I observe with curiosity that uninterrupted activity which, independent of the subject of any conversation I may be carrying on, continues its course… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that even the greatest musical geniuses have sometimes worked without inspiration. This guest (inspiration) does not always respond to the… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
What I have set down in a moment of ardour I must then critically examine. Sometimes I must do myself violence before I can… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time. — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
Reviewer: 'One of your themes was very similar to one of Beethoven's!' Brahms replied, 'Of course it is. Everyone steals - the important thing… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I started very young, so I read music very well. And my favorite composers to play are Brahms and Mozart. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I play a lot chamber music.As for something that's hard for me to play, before I leave this Earth I'm hoping to play Brahms'… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Brahms once remarked that the mark of an artist is how much he throws away. Nature, the great creator, is always throwing things away.… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone on for… — Rahsaan Roland Kirk Copy Share Image
A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that… — Edvard Grieg Copy Share Image
The only work that can be compared to Chopin's Etudes, innovatively, where every note is essential and one becomes completely exposed, is the Brahms-Paganini… — Carlo Grante Copy Share Image
That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
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