Richard Strauss quotes - page 2

When during my stay in Egypt I became familiar with the works of Nietzsche, whose polemic against christianity was particularly to my liking, the antipathy which I had always felt against a religion which relieves the faithful of responsibility for their actions (by means of confession) was confirmed and strengthened. (Richard Strauss)
It is difficult composing endings. Beethoven and Wagner could do it. Only great composers can do it. I can do it too. View quote
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It is better to conduct with the ear instead of with the arm: the rest follows automatically. View quote
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Very fine, but why do you put so many wrong notes in? Basically, it is all built on simple triads. View quote
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More like a sacrilege du printemps. View quote
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The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play. View quote
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Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too loud. View quote
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Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience. View quote
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Ten Golden Rules (for the album of a young conductor) View quote
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When you think you have reached the limits of prestissimo, go twice as fast. View quote
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Never look at the brass - it only encourages them. (Richard Strauss)
Thirty years ago I was regarded as a rebel, but to-day, as you see, I have lived to find myself a classic. View quote
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I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss! View quote
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I watched him at rehearsals and admired the way he conducted. Every corrective remark he made was exact: his ears and his musicianship were impregnable. View quote
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No other composer equals Strauss in his power of writing long stretches of music that interests us in and for itself, at the same time that every line and colour in it seems to express some new trait of the individual who is being sketched. View quote
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I simply must tell you of the thrilling impression the work (Salome) made on me when I read through it recently. Every note is spot on! Your vocation is to be dramatist. Through your music you have made me understand for the first time what Wilde's work is about. View quote
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While conducting an orchestra he breaks into a frantic dance which follows the slightest details of his quivering music like clear water into which a stone has just fallen. View quote
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When all is said and done, he was a giant - even if his feet were made of clay. View quote
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He definiteley thinks in colored images. Ein Heldenleben is a book of images, cinematography even. View quote
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Salome and Pelléas et Mélisande are the most striking works in European music for the last fifteen years. View quote
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Even if he has many hard sides to him and often appears cold, in the seven weeks of our tour I have come to recognise him as one of the noblest of men. Every hour spent with him is gain, even when he is silent. (Richard Strauss)
The Symphonia Domestica was amusing and annoying by turns; but with some lovely bits. View quote
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When it comes to the music of Richard Strauss, the bowing makes the fiddler grouse. View quote
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German Music is unthinkable without Richard Strauss. View quote
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The greatest impression he made on me: whatever he said or did, happened – with greatest ease. One never had the impression of being in front of a person who was aware of his own significance or who acted upon it. There was never any trace of vanity, as with many when faced with the fate of considering oneself above average. View quote
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