Controversial Sayings
1,571 sayings found from the Early Modern era
Ah how could I possibly admit such an infirmity in the one sense which should have been more perfect in me than in others[?]
Ah it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I felt called upon me to produce, and so I endured this wretched existence.
How great was the humiliation when one who stood beside me heard the distant sound of a shepherd's pipe, and I heard nothing; or heard the shepherd singing, and I heard nothing. Such experiences brought me to the verge of despair;--but little more an…
Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
Never break the silence if it is not to improve upon it.
There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works, and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is, one must be half a tradesman.
I never write a work continuously, without interruption.
I have never thought of writing for renown and glory. What I have in my heart must out; that is why I write.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)
I would, perhaps, rather come to you and your people, than to many rich folk who display inward poverty.
May God continue to give you the strength to build your temple of Isis, and may the pure fire there devour all your afflictions so that you may awake like a new phoenix.
Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
Oh continue to love me–never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.
Shit in your bed and make it burst.
Leck mich im Arsch!
What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!