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Johannes Brahms Quotes
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Type: Composer Quotes Category: German Composer Quotes Date of Birth: May 7, 1833 Date of Death: April 3, 1897 Nationality: German Find on Amazon: Johannes Brahms Related Authors: Lukas Foss Klaus Schulze Karlheinz Stockhausen Ludwig van Beethoven Richard Wagner Felix Mendelssohn Robert Schumann |
A symphony is no joke.
Johannes Brahms 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. Johannes Brahms I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer. Johannes Brahms If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon. Johannes Brahms It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table. Johannes Brahms 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. Johannes Brahms 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 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. Johannes Brahms Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind. Johannes Brahms |
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