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Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
Frederic Chopin
Art
Achievement
Simplicity
Reward
Final
Emerges
More
Vast
Crowning
Quantity
After
Notes
Played
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
Leonard Bernstein
Music
Will
Before
Our
More
Make
Beautifully
Than
Reply
Intensely
Ever
Violence
If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
William Gilbert
Me
You
Trust
World
Wish
Own
Must
Advance
Bound
Merits
Stump
Trumpet
Stir
Trust Me
Blow
Your
Enhance
Chance
Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.
Eubie Blake
Grateful
Hate
Mind
Be Grateful
Pay
Luck
Birds
Thunder
Nobody
Listen
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
Franz Liszt
Life
Faith
Alone
Long
Sacrifice
Suicide
Bitter
Only
Transform
Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.
Frederic Chopin
You
Soul
Heart
Miserable
Pour
Out
No-One
Share
Joys
Sorrows
How
Woes
Oh
Heavy
Your
Whom
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
Igor Stravinsky
Today
Truth
Me
Truth Is
Tomorrow
Will
Only
Know
Am
Cannot
Forth
Serve
Present
Bring
In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.
Jonathan Larson
Life
Death
Day
Every Day
World
Dangerous
Hide
Face
Community
Every
Other
Those
Out
Ripping
Seems
Rather
Reach
Learn
How
Terrors
End
Times
Squarely
Survive
Than
Where
Apart
To Survive
Should
Who
Each
Stare
Millennium
Bond
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music
Knowledge
World
Comprehend
Entrance
Higher
Cannot
Which
Mankind
O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Life
Art
Me
You
World
Cause
Impossible
Men
My Life
Think
Back
Secret
Way
Say
Would
Brought
Seem
Seemed
Only
Stubborn
Had
Wrong
Know
Until
Within
Felt
Makes
How
Am
Leave
Malevolent
Greatly
Ended
Which
Forth
Held
Who
What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Myself
You
Will
Accident
Birth
Thousand
Only
Princes
Am
Beethoven
Never look encouragingly at the brass, except with a short glance to give an important cue.
Richard Strauss
Important
Give
Except
Never
Glance
Look
Cue
Brass
Short
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
Stephen Sondheim
Best
Theatre
Live
Paper
Something
More
Put
Performers
Makes
Than
Author
Persists
Role
Different
Why
Bring
Competitions are for horses, not artists.
Bela Bartok
Horses
Artists
Competitions
Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
Gustav Mahler
Nature
Me
Spring
Air
Out
Must
Stay
Longer
House
Get
Any
Again
Breathe
Deeply
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage
People
Old
New
Ideas
Understand
New Ideas
Frightened
Old Ones
Why
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Alone
Happy
Experience
Speak
Money
Virtue
Recommend
Make
Children
Them
Your
Imagination creates reality.
Richard Wagner
Reality
Imagination
Creates
As much as you try to organize your life, life will surprise you.
Bryce Dessner
Life
You
Try
Will
Surprise
Much
Your
Organize
Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.
Gian Carlo Menotti
God
Day
Vision
Hell
Gifts
Clear
Clear Vision
Begins
Did
Done
Achieved
Which
Might
Us
Grants
Wasted
I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, 'I am deaf.' If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Life
People
Impossible
Miserable
Other
Say
Must
Find
Able
Lead
Had
Attend
Almost
Terrible
Deaf
Because
Am
Years
Handicap
Confess
Any
Just
Just Because
Social
Might
Profession
Functions
Cope
Two
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
Richard Strauss
Beautiful
Most Beautiful
Difficult
Voice
Most
Instrument
Human
Human Voice
Play
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
Thomas Beecham
Music
Great
Memory
Difficulty
Magical
Great Music
Facility
Never
Leaves
Which
Ear
Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.
Zoltan Kodaly
Art
Humanity
People
Benefactor
Possible
Rise
He
Powerful
Most
Most Powerful
Forces
Accessible
Real
Mankind
Who
Many
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.
Alfred Newman
Today
World
Made
Living
Furniture
Polish
Real
Artificial
Where
Lemonade
Lemons
Flavors
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
Claude Debussy
Sad
Life
Beautiful
Hope
Art
People
Events
Most Beautiful
Try
Will
Become
Everyday
Must
Remain
Factory
Most
Although
Deception
Lest
Utilitarian
Thing
Incorporate
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