Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Quotes

#1. There are names I do not want mentioned in my home.

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

#2. His mother's words faded to myth, concocted by a gentle soul to delight the imagination of a boy.

Until one day, they were no longer a myth. One day, he would wish he had never heard them at all because they spelled his happiness--and his eternal sorrow.

Natalia Marx

#3. At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick.

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

#4. And I wonder: Have I squandered my dogness? Have I forsaken my nature for my desires? Have I made a mistake by anticipating my future and shunning my present?

Garth Stein

#5. Needy and boring parents tend to have needy and bored children.

Amy Dickinson

#6. Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

#7. With our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will be the transformation of health care, education and energy.

Charles Krauthammer

#8. Fear is about things that you can't control. The future or the dark, or someone trying to kill you. You don't get scared of yourself because you always know what you're going to do.

Dan Wells