Charles Rosen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.
-- Charles Rosen

#Tradition #Classical Music #Music Is
Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.
-- Charles Rosen

#Character #Artistic #Compromise
Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.
-- Charles Rosen

#Doe #Affection #Evoke
The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.
-- Charles Rosen

#Confidence #Past #May
A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.
-- Charles Rosen

#Art #Decision #Pay
Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit sense - that is, insufficient by itself but a necessary condition for success.
-- Charles Rosen

#Epilepsy #Anxiety #Grace
When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.
-- Charles Rosen

#Hearing #Concerts #Performances

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.
A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.
It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.
I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.
Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.
Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.
Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.
Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.

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