Quote #13

A colossus beyond the grasp of most mortals, with his totally uncompromising power, his unsensual and uningratiating way with music as with people.

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  1. Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.
  2. Anyone who understands my music will never be unhappy again.
  3. You are going to Vienna in fulfillment of your long-frustrated wishes. The Genius of Mozart is mourning and weeping over the death of her p…
  4. Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
  5. When his friends, says Czerny, speak to him of his youthful renown, he replies: 'Ah, nonsense! I have never thought of writing for renown a…
  6. Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
  7. Another equally true saying of Schumann is that, compared with Beethoven, Schubert is as a woman to a man. For it must be confessed that on…
  8. Do you think I worry about your lousy fiddle when the spirit moves me?

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