Lotte Lehmann famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.
-- Lotte Lehmann

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Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.
-- Lotte Lehmann

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But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.
-- Lotte Lehmann

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I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.
-- Lotte Lehmann

#Afterlife #Arguing #Protest
[To the audience at her farewell concert:] You have always given me more than I gave to you ... You were the wings on which I soared.
-- Lotte Lehmann

#Farewell #Wings #Given
For what mission can be greater than that of giving to the world hours of exaltation in which it may forget the misery of the present, the cares of everyday life and lose itself in the eternally pure world of harmony. . .
-- Lotte Lehmann

#Giving #Everyday #Exaltation

The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.
Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.
When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.
A victory at Kursk would shine like a beacon to the world!
The more my dream are fulfilled the quicklier they become realities losing their shine.
I am a Bible Christian and if an archangel with a wingspread as broad as a constellation shining like the sun were to come and offer me some new truth, I'd ask him for a reference. If he could not show me where it is found in the Bible, I would bow him out and say, I'm awfully sorry, you don't bring any references with you
Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.
Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasnâ€™t easy. I didnâ€™t ask for this. I didnâ€™t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.

Lotte Lehmann famous quotes

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