Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen.
Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch? - Richard Strauss
Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch?
- Richard Strauss
On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect. - Richard Strauss
On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.
The most perfect melodic shapes are found in Mozart; he has the lightness of touch which is the true objective ... Listen to the remarkable expansion… - Richard Strauss
The most perfect melodic shapes are found in Mozart; he has the lightness of touch which is the true objective ... Listen to the remarkable expansion…
Its a funny thing Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und Verklärung. - Richard Strauss
Its a funny thing Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und Verklärung.
If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees. - Richard Strauss
If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees.
I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end. - Richard Strauss
I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.
The aria, after all, is the soul of opera. - Richard Strauss
The aria, after all, is the soul of opera.
Never look at the brass - it only encourages them. - Richard Strauss
Never look at the brass - it only encourages them.
I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher. - Richard Strauss
I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher.
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