This Week at The Classical Station

Herbert von Karajan: "The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play." SOurce: Inspiringquotes.com

Victor Hugo: "Music expresses that which cannot be put in words." Source: AZquotes.com

George Frideric Handel's thoughts on writing the Hallelujah Chorus: "I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself."

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "A painter paints his picture on canvas. A musician paints his picture on silence." Source: MiniVirtuoso

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: “Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.” Source: GoodReads

Fanny Mendelssohn: "It must be a sign of talent that I do not give up, though I can get nobody to take an interest in my efforts” Source: ClassicFM

Confucius: "Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without." Source: ClassicFM

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Melody is the essence of music.”  Source: Michael Kelly from Reminiscences of Michael Kelly, of the King's Theatre, and Theatre Royal Drury Lane (1826)

Plato, The Repulic: "musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul."

Leonard Bernstein: "I think that teaching is perhaps the essence of my function as a conductor. I share whatever I know and whatever I feel about the music. " Source: LeonardBernstein.com

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes." BrainyQuote.com. BrainyMedia Inc, 2021. 25 January 2021. https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/wolfgang_amadeus_mozart_160488

Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky: "I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames Les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous." Source: liveabout.com

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Michael Tilson Thomas: "If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music." Source: wisesayings.com

Robert Schumann: “In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.” Source: Rachel Taylor Geier