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Johannes Brahms Quotes:

Johannes Brahms quotes

Ocupation: Composer

Life: May 7, 1833 - April 3, 1897

Birthday: May 7

Death: April 3

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Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

Topics: Inspirational, Inspiring, Wind, Craftsmanship, Composing Music

quote without craftsmanship inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind johannes brahms Quotes

The only true immortality lies in one's children.

Topics: Children, Lying, Immortality

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.

Topics: Lying, Skills, Ideas

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

Topics: Leaving, Insult, Pardon, Insulted Him, Insulted

A symphony is no joke.

Topics: Symphony, Jokes

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.

Topics: Eye, Ideas, Mind, Orchestration

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.

Topics: Jealousy, Hatred, Mind, Bad Health, Hatred And Jealousy

Study Bach. There you will find everything.

Topics: Study

Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.

source: - Johannes Brahms' last words said after he had a small glass of wine, April 3, 1897.

Topics: Nice, Dying, Taste, Funny Famous Last Words

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

Topics: Tables, Fabulous, Notes

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.

source: - Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms (1971). “Letters of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, 1853-1896”

Topics: Writing, Men, Creating

Straightaway the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God.

Topics: Ideas, Flow, Orchestration

My things really are written with an appalling lack of practicality!

Topics: Practicality

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.

Topics: Important, Copying, Stealing, Brahms, Reviewers

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

Topics: Variation, Sometimes, Form

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.

Topics: Music, Rivers, Water

Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it.

Topics: May, Royal, Criticize, Highness

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.

Topics: Music, Artist, Miracle

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.

Topics: Men, People, Facts

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.

Topics: Real, Harmony, Theme

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.

Topics: Melody, Handle, Overload

One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.

Topics: Life And Love, Gains, Finishing, One Piece

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.

Topics: Jesus, Inspiration, Dark, Schubert

It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace.

Topics: Real, Grace, Ease

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

Topics: Writing, Trying, Purity

To follow in Beethoven's footsteps transcends one's strength.

Topics: Footsteps

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

Topics: Delight, Opera, Shallow

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.

Topics: Fall, Tables, Notes

What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?

Topics: Consideration For Others

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