Quotes by Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms

A symphony is no joke.

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Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.

Dying

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Taste

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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.

Harmony

Real

Used

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For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.

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Opera

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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.

Creating

Men

Writing

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I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

Form

Sometimes

Variation

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If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.

Insulted Him

Leaving

Pardon

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If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.

Purity

Trying

Writing

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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.

Music

Rivers

Water

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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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Quotes by Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms

A symphony is no joke.

Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.

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.

For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.

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.

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.

If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.

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.

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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