Vienna famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
-- Adolf Loos -
From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.
-- Bernard Arnault -
Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.
-- Billy Joel -
Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy when he was 16 and spent most of his life in Vienna. He's the key composer between classic music and romantic music. Beethoven was the beginning of romantic music, and he was the teacher of Beethoven and Schubert.
-- Cecilia Bartoli -
The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.
-- Douglas Coupland -
White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street: Moscow, Paris London, Vienna all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.
-- Edith Sitwell -
You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.
-- Eduard Hanslick -
There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh.
-- Erica Jong -
If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.
-- Erich von Stroheim -
Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.
-- Frederic Chopin -
He's going to audition for the Vienna Boys' Choir!
-- Gorilla Monsoon -
Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.
-- Gyorgy Ligeti -
In 1882 I was in Vienna, where I met an American whom I had known in the States. He said: 'Hang your chemistry and electricity! If you want to make a pile of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each others' throats with greater facility.'
-- Hiram Maxim -
I set out to become the greatest lover in Vienna, the greatest horseman in Austria, and the greatest economist in the world. Alas, for the illusions of youth: as a horseman, I was never really first-rate.
-- Joseph A. Schumpeter -
The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.
-- Karl Kraus -
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
-- Karl von Frisch -
I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
-- Karl von Frisch -
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
-- Karl von Frisch -
[During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I'm not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets.
-- Maria Callas -
I employ 20 people in Vienna. The other 130 coworkers are pilots and flight companions. The Overhead is limited with me. Reduces naturally the costs of my fliers.
-- Niki Lauda -
I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to.
-- Thomas G. Stemberg -
The Austrian School came into existence when a bunch of Viennese rent-gouging landlords didn't want rent control on the rents they could gouge out of their tenants in old Vienna, so they hired a bunch of scribblers - and that's the Austrian School.
-- Webster Tarpley -
[Eva Braun] also stayed with [Adolf Hitler] at the Hotel Imperial in Vienna, the Hotel Dreesen in Bad Godesberg and a few other places. I was never with her in these places, though my mother was there in Vienna.
-- Gretl Braun -
The Congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances.
-- Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne -
I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed
-- Blixa Bargeld
