Occupation: Composer Birth: October 22, 1811 Death: July 31, 1886
My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are….
Truth is a great flirt..
Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless..
The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit..
I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound..
Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to ….
So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in ….
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words..
The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which ….
Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day..
My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future..
In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be..
For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them speak, wee….
My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the intimate personal depository of everything that stirred wildly….
A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world..
The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of his purse strings..….
Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words..
A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense..
I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill..
You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy..
Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful..