Max Reger quotes

“I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it shall be behind me.”
-- Max Reger

Source : Quoted in Nicholas Slonimsky, Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time (1953). Cassell's Humorous Quotations suggests that an earlier version of this jab appeared in a letter by the Fourth Earl of Sandwich in 1785, but no such anecdote is found in the book said to be the source.

#Writing Quotes #House Quotes #Sitting Quotes

“Bach is the beginning and end of all music.”
-- Max Reger

Source : Max Reger, Christopher Anderson (2006). “Selected Writings of Max Reger”, p.82, Taylor & Francis

#Beginnings And Ends Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”

“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”

“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”

“When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There's nothing stranger than the smell of someone else's house. The scent goes right to your stomach. Mary's house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace. For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.”

“I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.”

“You and I are just like a blade of grass sitting here; we are going to wither and die. "But the word of the Lord endures forever"”

“I didn't know anything about fashion. I couldn't believe it when I got here. I don't know how I'm sitting here right now speaking English.”

“Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement”

“When I'm gone, you'll be sitting in a cafe and say, "Do you remember Agnes?"”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting rooms electronically. Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting-rooms electronically.”