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Johannes Brahms Quotes
Page 1 of 1Johannes Brahms
May 7, 1833 - April 3, 1897
Nationality: German
Category: Composer
Subcategory: German Composer
|  I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer. | | A symphony is no joke. | | Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them. | | If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon. | | Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind. | | Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully. | | Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration. | | We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it. | | It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table. |
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