Carl Flesch famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.

  • Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

  • If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.

  • You'll change your tune quickly enough when some banshee's sucking your soul out through your pupils.

  • There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, It appears That in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

  • Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

  • I like to play things that people understand, or maybe tunes that they could recognize. And so — I play for the people, just as much as for myself. Because, as I say, I still like to play.

  • The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.

  • I don't despise, because no-one should live rent-free inside your head.

  • In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

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