"The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens."

--

Source : Eduard Hanslick (1957). “Vom Musikalisch-Schönen”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

Eduard Hanslick

#Beautiful Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Musical Quotes

“He who has realized love for God in his heart is tireless in his pursuit of the Lord his God, and bears every hardship, reproach and insult nobly, never thinking the least evil of anyone.”
“Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.”
“Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.”
“Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.”
“Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.”
“Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.”
“It was much later that I realized Dad's secret. He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked and listened to a bishop or a college president. He was seriously interested in who you were and what you had to say.”

Source : Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (2000). “Respect: An Exploration”, p.4, Basic Books
“I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.”

You may also like:

Anton Bruckner
Composer
Antonin Dvorak
Composer
Franz Liszt
Composer
Hans von Bulow
Conductor
Johann Friedrich Herbart
Philosopher
Johannes Brahms
Composer
Richard Wagner
Composer
Susanne Katherina Langer
Philosopher
Theodor Billroth
Surgeon