Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.
Music Quotes
For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
How sour sweet music is When time is broke and no proportions kept! So it is in the music of men’s lives. (Richard II)
I don’t think you can really appreciate Lohengrin on first hearing. And I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time!
The study of the history of music and the hearing of masterworks of different epochs will quickly cure you of vanity and self-adoration.
Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.
Give me a laundry list and I’ll set it to music.
It is music’s lofty mission to shed light on the depths of the human heart.
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
Sometimes when I sit own to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me.
