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.
began french-scientist
The world began without man, and it will end without him.
against although attributes capable comparable creator holds immense itself key language majority meaning minority music musical mystery people science since supreme tiny various
Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.
aware claim french-scientist men minds myths operate therefore
I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.