Berlioz Quotes

• It must be added that from his first words the foreigner made a repellent impression on the poet, but Berlioz rather liked him - that is, not liked but . . . how to put it . . . was interested, or whatever.

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  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Firsts   Poet   Berlioz  

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.25, Penguin

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• Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

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  James Gibbons

  Berlioz  

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• Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art for sore hearts! And yet there are only a few like you and me who feel it!!!

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  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art   Painting   Like You  

  Vincent van Gogh, Martin Bailey (1990). “Vicent van Gogh, letters from Provence”, Editorial Biblos

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• Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The music causes me to dream of fabulous empires, filled with fabulous sins.

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  Hector Berlioz

  Music   Dream   Eagles  

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• I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

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  Franz Liszt

  Littles   Berlioz   Function  

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• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

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  Alfred Adler

  Teacher   Fighting   Principles  

  318

• In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.

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  Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

  Two   Giants   Berlioz  

  Letter to Vladimir Stassov on October 18, 1872. "Moussorgsky". Book by Oskar von Riesemann, translated by Paul England, p. 107, 1929.

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