Antonin Dvorak famous quotes

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The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample it under foot, and thus the chances are that it will perish before it is seen by the one discriminating spirit who will prize it above all else. The fact that no one has as yet arisen to make the most of it does not prove that nothing is there.
-- Antonin Dvorak

#Weed #Flower #Feet
Mozart is sweet sunshine.
-- Antonin Dvorak

#Sweet #Sunshine
In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.
-- Antonin Dvorak

#Music #School #America
I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any serious and original school of composition to be developed in the United States.
-- Antonin Dvorak

#Country #Real #School
My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I can to the young musicians of America. I...hope that just as this nation has already surpassed so many others in marvelous inventions and feats of engineering and commerce, and has made an honorable place for itself in literature in one short century, so it must assert itself on the...art of music...To bring about this result, we must trust the very youthful enthusiasm and patriotism of this country.
-- Antonin Dvorak

#Country #Teacher #Encouragement
I have composed too much.
-- Antonin Dvorak

#Too Much
It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not in the beginning - and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap.
-- Antonin Dvorak

#Art #Expression #Use
Do not wonder that I am so religious. An artist who is not could not produce anything like this. I like praying there at the window when I look out on the green and at the sky. I study with the birds, flowers, God and myself.
-- Antonin Dvorak

#Religious #Flower #Artist
The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.
-- Antonin Dvorak

#Country #People #Musician

Basically what's happening is I'm pleading guilty to possessing and having plants and not guilty to the charges of supply.
Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas.
The great thing about Weeds is that everything we do is never quite serious enough to be taken seriously. It always has humor behind it, and it think it makes it definitely more fun for the audience.
A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
If I ever fall in love again, I would like it if it were a slightly cold guy. Someone who won't constantly mind about my childish needs but who, the day after the quarrel, for example would offer me a flower accompanied by a sweet note That's kind of guy I need.
TIME's Person of the Year for 2006, maintainer of a foot long beard
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied.
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Antonin Dvorak famous quotes

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