Brahms Quotes
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One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.
— Johannes Brahms
What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?
— Johannes Brahms
A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.
— Edvard Grieg
To follow in Beethoven's footsteps transcends one's strength.
— Johannes Brahms
The only true immortality lies in one's children.[Letter to his friend, Richard Heuberger] — Johannes Brahms
Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.
— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins.
— Hans Von Bulow
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
— George Bernard Shaw
What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous.
— Brian Greene
I play a lot chamber music.As for something that's hard for me to play, before I leave this Earth I'm hoping to play Brahms' Second Piano Concerto.
— Condoleezza Rice
The idea comes to me from outside of me - and is like a gift. I then take the idea and make it my own - that is where the skill lies.
— Johannes Brahms
It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace.
— Johannes Brahms
Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
— Johannes Brahms
For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.
— Johannes Brahms
It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
— Johannes Brahms
A symphony is no joke.
— Johannes Brahms
If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.
— Johannes Brahms
Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it.
— Johannes Brahms
Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.
— Nigel Kennedy
Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.
— Johannes Brahms
When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.
— Johannes Brahms
The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary
— George Bernard Shaw
I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.
— Johannes Brahms
How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating.
— Johannes Brahms
If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.
— Johannes Brahms
Fortunately, I started very young, so I read music very well. And my favorite composers to play are Brahms and Mozart.
— Condoleezza Rice
My things really are written with an appalling lack of practicality!
— Johannes Brahms
Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.
— Johannes Brahms
Study Bach. There you will find everything.
— Johannes Brahms