Bruno Walter Quotes

#1. Music springs from and is replenished by a hidden source which lies outside the world or reality. Music ever spoke to me of a mysterious world beyond, which moved my heart deeply and eloquently intimated its transcendental nature.

Bruno Walter

#2. The works of the creative spirit last, they are essentially imperishable, while the world-stirring historical activities of even the most eminent men are circumscribed by time.

Bruno Walter

#3. Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.

Bruno Walter

#4. By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

Bruno Walter

#5. Our music, whose eternal being is forever bound up in its temporal sounds, is not merely an art, enriching beyond measure our cultural life, but also a message from higher worlds, raising and urging us on by it's reminders of our own eternal origins.

Bruno Walter

#6. It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

Bruno Walter

#7. The domain of rhythm extends from the spiritual to the carnal.

Bruno Walter