Richard Strauss famous quotes

04-24-2025

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
-- Richard Strauss

#Inspiring #Class #May
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play.
-- Richard Strauss

#Beautiful #Voice #Play
I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.
-- Richard Strauss

#Ends
The aria, after all, is the soul of opera.
-- Richard Strauss

#Soul #Opera #Aria
I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher.
-- Richard Strauss

#Beer #Glasses #Want
Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen.
-- Richard Strauss

#Taken #Wine #Ideas
Never look at the trombones, you'll just encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss

#Looks #Performing #Trombone
He'd be better off shoveling snow.
-- Richard Strauss

#Snow #Musical
Never look at the brass - it only encourages them.
-- Richard Strauss

#Music #Looks #Brass
don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm.
-- Richard Strauss

#Conducting #Should #Audience
Its a funny thing Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und VerklÃ¤rung.
-- Richard Strauss

#Funny Things #Dying #Way

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