Thomas Quasthoff quotes

“When I go to an opera performance and sit there while people are cheering and shouting "bravo," I sometimes ask myself what exactly they're cheering about. And I even see myself as an artist who also knows how to enjoy other people's performances.”
-- Thomas Quasthoff

#Cheer Quotes #Artist Quotes #People Quotes

“You reach your audience at the moment when you really have something to say - that is, when you're not just delivering a performance.”
-- Thomas Quasthoff

#Moments Quotes #Audience Quotes

“My mouth was always my weapon. I've become quieter now. It's possible to put things very clearly, concisely and sharply, even when you do it quietly.”
-- Thomas Quasthoff

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“I achieved everything one can achieve as a concert singer. Six Echo Klassik awards and three Grammys, and I also have my professorship at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. Now I'm going to turn to other things, like readings or audiobooks.”
-- Thomas Quasthoff

#Reading Quotes #Achieve Quotes

“And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.”

“I know a lot of friends and family who were Joe Montana fans, where it didn't matter how well Steve Young did. They weren't going to cheer for him because he wasn't Joe Montana.”

“Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner! Be every bar, and every star, Displayed in full and glorious manner! Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying! Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing!”

Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”

“I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.”

Source : "Boy of Age: Aaron Johnson". Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 6, 2010.

“I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.”

Source : Source: www.independentphilly.com

“As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.86, Univ of California Press

“Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.143, Univ of California Press

“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”

“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”

“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.