I don’t think you can really appreciate Lohengrin on first hearing. And I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time!
Music Quotes
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.
It was… an unforgettable picture to see (Chopin) sitting at the piano like a clairvoyant, lost in his dreams; to see how his vision communicated itself through his playing, and how, at the end of each piece, he had the sad habit of running one finger over the length of the plaintive keyboard, as though […]
Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
There is nothing more difficult than talking about music.
