Will Strauss
Will Strauss
snow musical better-off
He'd be better off shoveling snow.
lying creating years
Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch?
taken wine ideas
Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen.
beer glasses want
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.
thinking perfect shapes
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.
couple thinking degrees
If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees.
looks performing trombone
Never look at the trombones, you'll just encourage them.
perfect balance stage
On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.
ends
I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.
beautiful play voice
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play.
inspiring class may
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
character historical ignorant
If there be a mind that, not perceiving in the narratives we have compared the fingermarks of tradition, and hence the legendary character of these evangelical anecdotes, still leans to the historical interpretation, whether natural or supernatural; that mind must be alike ignorant of the true character both of legend and of history, of the natural and the supernatural.
christmas reality miracle
The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.
determination space perception
The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no space for the narratives of his fellow-evangelists; the enumeration of a third is given without any regard to the events reported by his predecessors; lastly, among several appearances recounted by various narrators, each claims to be the last, and yet has nothing in common with the others. Hence nothing but wilful blindness can prevent the perception that no one of the narrators knew and presupposed what another records.