Top 34 Quotes About Richard Strauss: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Richard Strauss

#1. A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.

Johannes Rau

#2. What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old are gradually becoming accustomed and which have procreated d'Indy and Richard Strauss.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

#3. [On the music of Richard Strauss:] Too many notes!

Nadia Boulanger

#4. In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.

Zubin Mehta

#5. Simply having opposition brought latent feelings to the surface and polarized views he might otherwise hardly have bothered to formulate. It became
urgent for him to revile Richard Strauss, and he did it happily but a little hysterically, as if far
more than questions of taste were involved.

Alan Hollinghurst

#6. I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.

Jessye Norman

#7. Well, I think the first piece of music I ever heard that I really loved was 'Salome's Dances' by Richard Strauss. I played that 12-inch, 78 record, and I stood up on an ottoman to play it on a big Victrola and I'd just keep playing it and playing it.

Mike Stoller

#8. When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

Richard Strauss

#10. The third quality that is needed for a scientist to become a public icon is wisdom. Besides being a famous joker and a famous genius, Feynman was also a wise human being whose answers to serious questions made sense.

Freeman Dyson

#11. You better learn to regulate your perspiration. This is not collision theft. To flush is a sign that you're hard at work. Nobody works hard riding the tram - not even the driver.

Martyn V. Halm

#12. On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.

Richard Strauss

#13. Never look at the trombones, you'll just encourage them.

Richard Strauss

#14. If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees.

Richard Strauss

#15. Freedom and dignity are not scraps to be doled out by cruel masters. They belong to every man, woman, and child. They are our right. And we won't stop, until they belong to us!

Steven Dos Santos

#16. Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.

Richard Strauss

#17. I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher.

Richard Strauss

#18. My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.

Dane Cook

#19. Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too loud.

Richard Strauss

#20. I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

Richard Strauss

#21. Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen.

Richard Strauss

#22. With the wings of love you can fly in everyone's heart.

Debasish Mridha

#23. I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

Richard Strauss

#24. Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.

Richard Strauss

#25. The most perfect melodic shapes are found in Mozart; he has the lightness of touch which is the true objective ... Listen to the remarkable expansion of a Mozart melody, to Cherubino's 'Voi che sapete', for instance. You think it is coming to an end, but it goes farther, even farther.

Richard Strauss

#26. The aria, after all, is the soul of opera.

Richard Strauss

#27. When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

Mark Twain