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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
It is better to be silent and be real than to talk and not be real.
— Ignatius Of Antioch
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
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
— Elbert Hubbard
If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.
— Johannes Brahms
The signers of the Declaration of Independence and the framers of the Constitution were inspired from on high to do that work.
— Brigham Young
It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
— Johannes Brahms
For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.
— Johannes Brahms
It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace.
— Johannes Brahms
We don't really remember where we came from, and we're not too sure about where we go to, if we are, after this thing we call life.
— Frederick Lenz
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
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
— Thomas Paine
Freedom is a hard-bought thing.
— Paul Robeson
Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
— Johannes Brahms
A symphony is no joke.
— Johannes Brahms
Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it.
— Johannes Brahms
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
Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.
— Johannes Brahms
But is it likely? No.
— Isaac Sharpe
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
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
The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis