Top 41 Quotes About Bruckner
#2. When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
#3. Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.
Edward Abbey
#4. Some members of the Vienna Philharmonic convinced me to try Bruckner, which I have never done before. And that was interesting to me to have this experience with this orchestra, which knows the repertoire very well, and to be confronted with this knowledge, and to learn from them.
Pierre Boulez
#5. Besides, as much as she loved Bruckner's symphonies, he just couldn't touch a man who had painted his bedroom walls with views of the sea to please her, who gave his precious smiles to her alone, who wept when he watched his daughter sleep.
Lynn Kurland
#6. I've got great joy from rediscovering Western music. I love Schumann and Chopin, and those amazing symphonies of Bruckner.
John Tavener
#7. Part of what Brahms and others could never quite get over was that Bruckner the composer of epic symphonies behaved, much of the time, like a nincompoop.
Jan Swafford
#8. Wagner's philosophy had absolutely nothing to do with Bruckner. Bruckner hadn't written a single word against Jews. Wagner's book on the Jews was one of the most infamous books of the 19th century.
Zubin Mehta
#9. I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of his musical language and the huge time spans in which his ideas develop, to Mahler, with his hysteria and self-indulgence.
Jeffrey Tate
#11. An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.
Karl Kraus
#12. I know of only one composer who measures up to Beethoven, and that is Bruckner.
Richard Wagner
#13. For me personally, I think I just enjoy movies about werewolves or vampires because it's not like an everyday thing. It's something you can really escape into.
Agnes Bruckner
#14. You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends.
Pascal Bruckner
#15. You can have compassion for someone who is suffering and try to help this person but if your relationship with mankind is only one of compassion, it is only another form of contempt and it prevents feelings like admiration, empathy which to my mind are much more positive.
Pascal Bruckner
#17. Frustration is a bad experience. What you have to stress is the satisfaction.
Pascal Bruckner
#19. I like to sleep a lot. I mean I really like to sleep.
Agnes Bruckner
#20. The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.
Pascal Bruckner
#21. The number of hypotheses and theories about climate change are numerous. Quite naturally they have caught the public attention, as any proof of past climactic change points to the possibility of future climate change, which inevitably will have significant implications for global economics.
Eduard Bruckner
#22. Anytime I'm at a club or a party, I'm dancing from beginning to end.
Agnes Bruckner
#23. You construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job.
Pascal Bruckner
#24. They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not. God has chosen me from thousands and given me, of all people, this talent. It is to Him that I must give account. How then would I stand there before Almighty God, if I followed the others and not Him?
Anton Bruckner
#25. The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life; they belong to the same social class, the same milieu, they have the same experiences. Once you read one of those books, you have read them all. And this is a problem.
Pascal Bruckner
#26. Being a director, just to begin with, is just, I think, one of the hardest jobs just because you have to work in every way. You have to work with actors, you have to be involved with the producers and the writing and the action. Every department comes to you; you have to deal with everything.
Agnes Bruckner
#27. For the most part, I think that people enjoy seeing a movie where they can just have fun in.
Agnes Bruckner
#28. Love has triumphed over marriage but now it is destroying it from inside
Pascal Bruckner
#29. You are not doomed to reproduce what your ancestors have done. The son will not be like his father, the daughter will not be like her mother. She can invent something new. I think that is the best message of modernity.
Pascal Bruckner
#30. We should distinguish between responsibility and guilt. Guilt only touches the ones who committed the crimes but the son of a criminal is not a criminal himself.
Pascal Bruckner
#31. You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.
Agnes Bruckner
#33. I'm a huge gamer! I love playing 'World of Warcraft.' It helps me wind down and escape reality for a few.
Agnes Bruckner
#34. I get a lot of dark scripts now. I don't wanna be stuck doing movies like American Pie. For someone my age, once you get started doing them, it's hard to get out.
Agnes Bruckner
#35. Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing.
Pascal Bruckner
#36. I'm a fun person, but to be the life of the party all the time, just to walk into a room and be 'on' and have everybody looking at you, that is so incredibly scary for me.
Agnes Bruckner
#37. You don't have to give people fish everyday but instead you must give them the pole to learn how to fish themselves.
Pascal Bruckner
#38. Someday I will have to give an account of myself. How would the Father in Heaven judge me if I followed others and not Him?
Anton Bruckner
#39. We are not going to confine women to the home, cover their heads, lengthen their skirts, or beat up gay people, prohibit alcohol, censure film, theater, and literature, and codify tolerance in order to respect the overly sensitive whims of a few sanctimonious persons.
Pascal Bruckner
#40. Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germans today to feel guilty about Hitlerism.
Pascal Bruckner
#41. It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.
Anton Bruckner
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