Sonatas Quotes

• I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.

  Sergei Prokofiev

  Purpose, Want, Form

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• There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians say the greatest sonatas are composed; whether or not it is true, I do not know, but of a surety I have seen it emerge in the tapestry of my life.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Karma, Patterns, Musician

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.49, Macmillan

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• Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recapitulation. Were they dull?.

  David Ogilvy

  Discipline, Three, Development

  David Ogilvy (1963). "Confesiones de un publicitario", Holiday House

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• Soy parte de una luz, y es la música. La Luz llena mis seis sentidos: La veo, oigo, siento, huelo, toco y pienso. Pensar es mi sexto sentido. Las partículas de Luz son notas escritas. Un rayo puede ser una sonata entera. Mil bolas de rayo son un concierto.. Para este concierto he creado una bola de relámpago, que puede oírse en las cumbres heladas del Himalaya.

  Nikola Tesla

  Medio, Pensar, Oler

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• Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Music, Years, Piano

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• Las sonatas de Mozart son únicas; son demasiado fáciles para los niños y demasiado difíciles para los artistas.

  Artur Schnabel

  Children, Artist, Unique

  Quoted in Nat Shapiro, An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music (1978)

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• Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understand, to have powers which I cannot have. Music seems to me to act like yawning or laughter; I have no desire to sleep, but I yawn when I see others yawn; with no reason to laugh, I laugh when I hear others laugh. And music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time. ~The Kreutzer Sonata

  Leo Tolstoy

  Laughter, Real, Sleep

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “LEO TOLSTOY – The Ultimate Short Stories Collection: 120+ Titles in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Kreutzer Sonata, The Forged Coupon, Hadji Murad, Alyosha the Pot, Master and Man, Father Sergius, Diary of a Lunatic, The Cossacks, My Dream, The Young Tsar, Fables and Stories for Children...”, p.135, e-artnow

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• The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Writing, Order

  Alan Watts (1951). "La sabiduría de la inseguridad", Vintage

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• All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Beauty, Long, Phrases

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.32, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata in my head and discover new things all the time.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Paris, People, Cafes

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• I consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece. Think about it this way: If you think about a pianist who plays a Schubert sonata through his whole lifetime - if you listen to Rubenstein or Horowitz playing their repertoire later in their life, you understand the richness with which they play that music, and how differently they must have played it when they were younger.

  Philip Glass

  Thinking, Play, Pieces

  "Ira Glass Interviews His Cousin, Composer Philip Glass". www.wbur.org. September 21, 1999.

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• Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then invents DNA or the flute sonata form or a way of making light bulbs wear out in half the time. But most of them miss. Most people go through their lives without being hit by even one.

  Terry Pratchett

  Inspiration, Light, Dna

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• When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a particular window of a particular room -- on successive occasions, we quickly begin to adapt to it, and the experience yields less pleasure each time. Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage

  Daniel Gilbert

  Yield, Making Love, Hearing

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). "Tropezando con la felicidad", Vintage

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• No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?

  Milan Kundera

  Music, Two, Piano

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• Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.

  Elliott Carter

  War, Nice, Lunch

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• What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in architecturalcontinuity - the rhythm across their paintings. When I paint a landscape, Iget the greatest pleasure out of composing it. As I paint, I try to work outa visual sonata form or a fugue, with realistic images.

  Ian Hornak

  Organization, Space, Work Out

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• Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Châteaubriand and vegetables.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Light, Vegetables, Play

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• Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal of technical work has to be done before the great works of violin literature, the sonatas and concertos, may be approached.

  Leopold Auer

  Art, Real, Technique

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• What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the jitterbug. Night and day without let the radio drowns us in a hog-wash of the most nauseating, sentimental ditties. From the churches comes the melancholy dirge of the dead Christ, a music which is no more sacred than a rotten turnip.

  Henry Miller

  Night, Symphony, Years

  Henry Miller (1945). "La pesadilla del aire acondicionado", [New York] : New directions

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• Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.

  David Gelernter

  Wall, Book, Symphony

  Entrevista en Big Think, bigthink.com.

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• The Unicorn Sonata... tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes - and our ears - to find it.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Home, Eye, Ears

  "The Unicorn Sonata". Book by Peter S. Beagle, 1996.

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• Life is a refining process. Our response to it determines whether we'll be ground down or polished up. On a piano, one person sits down and plays sonatas, while another merely bangs away at "Chopsticks." The piano is not responsible. It's how you touch the keys that makes the difference. It's how you play what life gives you that determines your joy and shine.

  Barbara Johnson

  Attitude, Keys, Play

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.79, Zondervan

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• The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspiration, Play, Perfection

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• There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Sky, Moonlight, Thunder

  "Dancing of Sounds". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias: love of God was not behind them, nor love of life. But the love of man to be worshiped by man.

  Tom Rachman

  Love Life, Ambition, Men

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