Felix Mendelssohn Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Felix Mendelssohn Quotes and Sayings


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    Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure. Felix Mendelssohn | Refcard PDF
  • 2
    People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words. Felix Mendelssohn | Refcard PDF
  • 3
    The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. Felix Mendelssohn | Refcard PDF
  • 4
    These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words. Felix Mendelssohn | Refcard PDF
  • 5
    Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God. Felix Mendelssohn | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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