Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach quotes
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“According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.”
-- Carl Philipp Emanuel BachSource : "Haydn, A Documentary Study". Book by Chandler Robbins Landon (p. 88), 1981.
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“A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.”
-- Carl Philipp Emanuel BachSource : "Composers on Music : An Anthology of Composers' Writings from Palestrina to Copland". Book by Sam Morgenstern, p. 60, 1956.
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“A musician cannot move others unless he, too, is moved.”
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“What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.”
-- Carl Philipp Emanuel BachSource : "Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments". Essay by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, en.wikiquote.org. 1753.
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“I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.”
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“Keyboardists whose chief asset is mere technique . . . more often than not astound us with their prowess without ever touching our sensibilities. They overwhelm our hearing without satisfying it and stun the mind without moving it.”
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“The new, though engaging at times, may often start as offensive to us. The latter is often proof of the worth of this, while in the long run it will receive more recognition, than some, of what we liked so much in the beginning.”
-- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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“He who slings mud generally loses ground.”
Source : "Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56" edited by James Beasley Simpson, (p. 58), 1957.
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“You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.”
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“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.”
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