Quotes by Johannes Brahms - Page 1

A symphony is no joke.
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Jokes
Symphony
Joke
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Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.
Johannes Brahms / Composer
Dying
Nice
Taste
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Study Bach. There you will find everything.
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The only true immortality lies in one's children.
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Children
Immortality
Lying
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Straightaway the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God.
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Flow
Ideas
Orchestration
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To follow in Beethoven's footsteps transcends one's strength.
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For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.
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Delight
Opera
Shallow
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If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.
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Insulted
Insulted Him
Leaving
Pardon
Anyone
Beg
Here
His
Whom
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My things really are written with an appalling lack of practicality!
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Practicality
Written
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Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
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Inspirational
Inspiring
Music
Optimistic
Craftsmanship
Inspiration
Mere
Wind
Reed
Without
Shaken
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If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.
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Purity
Trying
Writing
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Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it.
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Criticize
May
Royal
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I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.
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Form
Ought
Seems
Sometimes
Variation
Ponder
Purer
Restrained
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It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace.
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Ease
Grace
Real
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It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
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Fabulous
Notes
Superfluous
Tables
Compose
Leave
Table
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What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?
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Biographies
Feelings
Historical
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One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.
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Finishing
Life And Love
Pieces
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We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.
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Handle
Melody
Overload
Cling
Freely
Merely
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The idea comes to me from outside of me - and is like a gift. I then take the idea and make it my own - that is where the skill lies.
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Ideas
Lying
Skills
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Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.
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Music
Artist
Miracle
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How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating.
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Men
Creating
Writing
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The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men like us to become famous.
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Men
Facts
People
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Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
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Harmony
Melody
Old Days
Real
Theme
Used
Base
Beautifully
Beethoven
Composers
Strictly
Rhythms
Subject
Varies
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Reviewer: 'One of your themes was very similar to one of Beethoven's!' Brahms replied, 'Of course it is. Everyone steals - the important thing is to do it brilliantly.
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Copying
Important
Stealing
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It is not hard to compose but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table. . . So many melodies fly about, one must be careful not to tread on them.
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Fall
Notes
Tables
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Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.
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Eye
Flow
Ideas
Mind
Orchestration
God Mind Me
Forms
Clothed
Directly
Distinct
Harmonies
Themes
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In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary waters and bearss them onward in larger and statelier volume.
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Music
Noble
Rivers
Water
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Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
Johannes Brahms / Composer
Jealousy
Jealous
Health
Enjoy
Hatred
Mind
Refuse
Relief
Suspicion
Trying
Bad
Those
Denigrate
Emotionally
Fill
Likewise
Minds
Poisons
Rank
Rule
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In my study I can lay my hand on the Bible in the pitch dark. All truly inspired ideas come from God. The powers from which all truly great composers like Mozart, Schubert, Bach and Beethoven drew their inspirations is the same power that enabled Jesus to do his miracles.
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Jesus
Dark
Inspiration
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