Aphorisms of Russian composers - Sayings about music - It's interesting! Music is the highest art in the world: a selection of quotes and aphorisms about music.

These statements can be used in different ways: hang out in the classroom, read to students. You can invite students to listen to the statement and try to retell it in their own way, explaining how they understand the expressed thought. This work is of interest to middle-aged students and causes a fruitful discussion.

“Music is sounds, but music is also a whole mass of feelings that open up in these sounds for sensitive people.” A. Lunacharsky

"Music is a higher revelation than wisdom." R. Rollan

“Music is an object that gives a person pleasure, enjoyment.” Ya.A.Komensky

“Music is dear to us because it is the deepest expression of the soul, the harmonic echo of its joys and sorrows.” R. Rollan

"Music is the highest of the arts." Goethe

“... music, when it is perfect, undoubtedly gives the brightest happiness.” Stendhal

“I wish with all the strength of my soul that my music would bring help and comfort to people.” P.I. Tchaikovsky

“I don't know if there is a single great musician who can be said to be outdated. The simplest song coming from the depths of millennia is alive.” A.V. Lunacharsky

“Art is a heart capable of thinking.” C. Gounod

"Poets tell us
that the music of Orpheus
Trees, rocks, rivers enchanted.
Everything that is insensitive, severe, stormy, -
Always, for a moment, though, music softens. W. Shakespeare

“Music is like a sigh that suddenly escapes from the heart. You feel a lot in it, but little is understandable to reason. S.F. Durov

“Music is a universal language. It exists for everyone – for the poor and the rich, the unfortunate and the happy.” L.A.Stokovsky

“Music encourages us to think eloquently.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Art is, first of all, skill, the ability to create things that are perfect in form.” I.F. Stravinsky

"Music is a powerful source of thought." V.A. Sukhomlinsky

“Music, like any art, conveys the thoughts of the one who created it, the thoughts and feelings of those whom it depicts.

“The primary source of music is not only the surrounding world, but also the person himself, his spiritual world, thinking and speech.” V.A. Sukhomlinsky

"There are no kinds of music, except for two - good and bad." J. Bizet

“What is music but sounds that change and move in time.” L. Bernstein

“Music is the arithmetic of sounds, just as optics is the geometry of light.” C. Debussy

“What a vast, rich world is art, if a person is taken as the goal. M.P. Mussorgsky

“The cardinal advantage of my life has always been the search for an original, my own musical language. I hate imitations, I hate clichés.” S.S. Prokofiev

“The first moments of inspiration in my life - I experienced it while singing in the choir.” R. Shchedrin

“I can't stand the tragic atmosphere of today. I want to create fun. This is my need.” Strauss

“Only by comprehending the form can one comprehend the spirit.” R.Shuman

“From the bottom of my heart, I hate the one-sidedness that makes many people think that only what they do is the best.” F. Schubert

“Not a stream, but a sea, you should call it!” L. Beethoven

“Work, - if your things were not even played, not published, did not meet with sympathy, believe me - they will find an honorable path for themselves; you have an enormous and original talent.” F. List (about Borodino)

"Music is my soul." M.I. Glinka

“The sincere, pure and bright music of Grieg was created to awaken “good feelings” in people. A.S. Pushkin

"I understand the people as a great personality." M.P. Mussorgsky

“Scriabin teaches not to be afraid of suffering, not to be afraid of death, but to believe in the victorious life of the spirit.” A.V. Lunacharsky

“I loved everything that I did in this moment, and with each new thing I feel like I've finally found my way and have only just started composing." I.F. Stravinsky

“Hats off, gentlemen, before you is a genius!” R. Schumann (about Chopin)

"Pure, generous, kind, condoling, he was filled with one feeling, the most noble of earthly feelings - love for the motherland." F. Liszt (about Chopin)

"Chopin is a bard, a rhapsodist, a spirit, a soul of the piano." A. Rubinshtein

“Schubert had the rare ability to “feel and convey the joys and sorrows of life, as most people feel and would like to convey if they had Schubert's talent.” B.V. Asafiev

I love Bach...
Well, how can I tell you
Not that there is no music today,
But such a pure crystal
We have not received grace yet.
What balance of passions
What a comprehensive conscience
Which amazing story
About my soul thrown into the ages! N. Ushakov

They say that I'm old ancient rivers,
That time is slipping out of my hands forever.
Yes, a lot of it has been wasted, I know.
But, devil, so be it! Let the losses be great
Also, damn it, there are my cantatas.
And not time for me - but I will finish it. K.I.Galchinsky

"You, Mozart, God"
… What depth!
What courage, and what harmony!
You, Mozart, are God, and you yourself do not know it,
I know I! A.S. Pushkin

... Like a kind of cherub,
He brought us a few songs of paradise,
So that, revolting wingless desire
In us, children of dust, fly away after.

Aphorisms of foreign composers:

1. The purpose of music is to touch heartsJohann Sebastian Bach)
2. Music mediator between the life of the mind and the life of the senses. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
3. Music should strike fire from people's hearts. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
4. Give thanks wherever you can

Above all, love freedom

And even at the royal throne

Do not renounce the truth. (Ludwig van Beethoven)

1. To describe is the business of painting, poetry can also consider itself happy in this respect compared to music, its area is not so limited as mine. But on the other hand, mine extends much further into other realms, and my possessions are not so easily encroached upon. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
2. Music is a higher revelation than wisdom and philosophy. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
3. Music is a people's need. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
4. For a person with talent and love for work, there are no barriers. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
5. The highest distinction of a person is perseverance in overcoming the most cruel obstacles. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
6. ... anyone who acts morally and nobly can, by virtue of this very thing, endure misfortune. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
7. A true artist who loves art most of all is never satisfied with himself and tries to go further and further. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
8. There is no rule that cannot be broken for the sake of something more beautiful. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
9. No such outposts have yet been erected that would say to the emerging talent: so far and no further. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
10. write music not difficult, the hardest thing is to cross out extra notes. ( Johannes Brahms)
11. Music cannot think, but it can embody a thought. ( Richard Wagner)
12. Melody is the only form of music; without melody, music is unthinkable, and music and melody are inseparable. ( Richard Wagner)
13. One has only to want, and there will be art! ( Richard Wagner)
14. A mistake in artistic genre opera was that the means of expression (music) was made the end, and the end of expression (drama) the means. ( Richard Wagner)
15. True art can rise from its state of civilized barbarism to its worthy height only on the shoulders of our great social movement; he has with him common goal, and they can only achieve it if both recognize it. This goal is a beautiful and strong man; let the Revolution give him Strength, Art - Beauty. ( Richard Wagner)
16. ...out of life standing art must die... Richard Wagner)
17. Music is the true universal human speech. (Carl Maria von Weber)
18. To compose music, you must first of all have it in your soul! ( Giuseppe Verdi)
19. Music should not shield us from life. After all, everything we live by: our sufferings, our joys - all this should sound in full voice in music. We in it, as in life, must be sincere. ( Giuseppe Verdi)
20. Melody, harmony, recitation, passionate singing, orchestral effects and colors are nothing but means. ( Giuseppe Verdi)
21. Create with these tools good music. ( Giuseppe Verdi)
22. Good instrumentation does not consist in variety and extraordinary effects - it is good. when expressing something. ( Giuseppe Verdi)
23. The beauty of music is in the melody. ( Joseph Haydn)
24. I would be very sorry. if my music only entertained my listeners: I aspired to make them better. (Georg Friedrich Handel)
25. Simplicity, truth and naturalness - these are the three great principles of beauty in all works of art. (Christoph Wellibald Gluck)
26. Words sometimes need music, but music doesn't need anything. ( Edvard Grieg)
27. Art is a heart capable of thinking. ( Charles Gounod)
28. I managed to see big light, but everywhere and always I remained what I was, a simple Czech musician. ( Antonin Dvorak)
29. Music is the arithmetic of sounds, just as optics is the geometry of light. ( Claude Debussy)
30. Artistic music grows out of folk music. It is its close continuation, an elegant advanced degree. ( Zoltan Kodaly)
31. Music is the language of the environment around us invisible world and, like everything mysterious, deeply disturbs my whole being. ( Ljubica Marich)
32. Music dominates autocratically and makes you forget about everything else. (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
33. Poetry is the obedient daughter of music. (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
34. Music, even in the most terrible dramatic situations, must always captivate the ear, always remain music! (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
35. Music is the architecture of sounds; this is a plastic art that forms the vibration of air instead of clay... ( Camille Saint-Saens)
36. Music has no fatherland; fatherland is her universe. ( Fryderyk Chopin)
37. The expression of thoughts through tones, the discovery of feelings through these tones, the art of expressing oneself in tones - there is music! ( Fryderyk Chopin)
38. Music is like drama. The queen (melody) has more power, but the decision is always with the king. ( Robert Schumann)
39. Who does not play with piano , does not play on it either. (Robert Schumann )
40. The fingers should create on the piano what the head wants - and not vice versa. (Robert Schumann )
41. Always play as if the artist is listening to you. ( Robert Schumann)
42. ...Music in its highest sense is capable of embodying all multifaceted concreteness real life: the most subtle and special states of the soul, life individual person and the life of peoples national character country and its nature! ( Robert Schumann)
43. For me, the poetic program is nothing more than a creative occasion both for creating an expressive form and for musical development my feelings, not just musical description famous life events. ( Richard Strauss)
44. I draw... I draw a sonata... What a joy it is to work hard, furiously, without respite, almost to the point of losing consciousness, forgetting everything. (Mikalojus Ciurlionis)
45. Music must come from the heart to reach the heart. ( George Enescu)

Aphorisms of prominent foreign figures:

1. MUSIC IS THE GREATEST POWER. SHE CAN MAKE A MAN LOVE AND HATE, FORGIVE AND KILL.From the teachings of ancient Greek philosophers)
2. When we perceive with the ear rhythm and melody our mental state changes. (Aristotle )
3. Music washes away the dust from the soul Everyday life. (Berthold Averbakh )
4. Music alone is the language of the world and does not need translation, for the soul speaks. (Berthold Averbakh )
5. Music is the only world language, it does not need to be translated, soul speaks to soul in it. ( Averbakh)
6. We don't listen to music, but music listens to us. ( Theodor Adorno)
7. What is music but sounds that change and move in time. (Leonard Bernstein)
8. What is music ? It occupies a place between thought and appearance; like a pre-dawn mediator, she stands between spirit and matter; related to both, it is different from them; this is a spirit in need of measured time; is matter that does without space ( Heinrich Heine)
9. Music - the last word art... ( Heinrich Heine)
10. The greatness of art is most clearly seen in music. ( Johann Wolfgang Goethe )
11. Music is the highest of the arts.(Johann Wolfgang Goethe )
12. Music "pleasant to the ear" is like a book "pleasant to look at". ( Joseph Hoffman)
13. The secret of music is what it finds inexhaustible source where speech stops. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann)
14. Of all the noises known to man, music is the most expensive noise. ( Theophile Gauthier)
15. write about music It's like dancing about architecture. ( Frank Zappa)
16. Music with its melody brings us to the very edge of eternity and gives us the opportunity for a few minutes to comprehend its greatness ( Thomas Carlyle)
17. The destruction of any state begins with the destruction of its music. A people without pure and bright music is doomed to degeneration. (Chinese proverb)
18. Music unites peoples, its language is understandable to everyone, it helps to comprehend the spiritual warehouse of the nation. ( Van Cliburn)
19. Music is the art of sadness and joy for no reason. (Tadeusz Kotarbinski)
20. There is no sweeter music in the world than the sound of your favorite voice. ( Jean de La Bruyère)
21. Music is the universal language of mankind. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
22. Music is the best solace for a sad person. ( Martin Luther)
23. Without music life would be a mistake. ( Friedrich Nietzsche )
24. God gave us music so that we would first of all be drawn upward by it... ( Friedrich Nietzsche )
25. Music inspires the whole world, supplies the soul with wings, promotes the flight of the imagination. ( Plato)
26. ...the greatest of the wonders of music that affects only movement is its ability to convey to them even the image of peace. Sleep, the stillness of the night, solitude and even stillness are among the musical pictures. Painting, which does not have such power, is not able to imitate music in the way that the latter imitates it ... ( Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
27. Expressiveness is a quality by which a musician feels and conveys with force all the ideas that he must convey, and all those feelings that he must express ... ( Jean Jacques Rousseau)
28. The field of music is spiritual unrest. The purpose of music is to excite these emotional disturbances, and she herself is also inspired by them. ( George Sand)
29. Music revives in us the consciousness of our mental faculties; its sounds inspire us with the noblest efforts. (Anne-Louise Germaine de Stael)
30. Nothing evokes the past with such force as music; she achieves more: when she invokes it, it seems as if it itself passes before us, shrouded, like the shadows of those who are dear to us, with a mysterious and sad veil. (Anne-Louise Germaine de Stael)
31. ... Music, when it is perfect, undoubtedly gives the brightest happiness. ( Stendhal)
32. Music was perhaps my strongest and most costly passion ... I would have walked hundreds of leagues, I would have agreed to stay in prison for weeks, just to listen to Don Giovanni (Mozart's opera) or The Secret Marriage ( opera by Cimarosa), and I can’t imagine why else I would make such sacrifices. ( Stendhal)
33. With the help of the magical language of music, you can instantly find yourself in an amazingly mysterious and wonderful world beauty and inspiration. (Leopold Stokowski)
34. Music - source of joy wise people. ( Xun Tzu)
35. Can't grow complete person without cultivating in him a sense of beauty. (Rabindranath Tagore)
36. Music encourages us to think eloquently. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Aphorisms of Russian composers:

1. The point of harmony is to draw those features that are not and cannot be in the melody. (Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka)
2. Avoid singing in the company of bad amateurs, so you will either be spoiled with excessive praise, which is always harmful, or you will be made remarks from which you will be jarred. In the company of real musicians, sing boldly, because from them, except for useful instructions, you will not hear anything else. (Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka)
3. It is possible to combine the requirements of art with the requirements of the age and, taking advantage of the improvement of instruments and performance, write plays that are equally reportable to connoisseurs and ordinary public. (Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka)
4. I want the sound to directly express the word. I want the truth. (Alexander Sergeevich Dargomyzhsky)
5. Music not only gives us pleasure. She teaches a lot. She, like a book, makes us better, smarter, kinder. ()
6. Spiritual baggage, unlike ordinary baggage, has an amazing property: the larger it is, the easier it is for a person to follow the paths of life. (Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky)
7. Music is an art that has a great power of emotional impact on a person, and that is why it can play a huge role in educating the clergy of children and youth. (Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky)
8. Art is perhaps the most amazing miracle of all miracles. created by mankind throughout the history of its existence, and feeling, thought and beauty are inextricably linked in this miracle. Why deceive people, why impoverish them spiritual world, presenting mediocre deformities, devoid of feelings, thoughts, and beauty, as the highest achievements of art? (Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky)
9. Music is most capable of expressing and conveying spiritual moods. ( Caesar Cui)
10. I understand the people as a great personality, animated by a single idea. This is my task! I tried to resolve it in my opera. (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
11. ... For me, an important article is a faithful reproduction of folk fantasy, no matter how it manifests itself.
12. What a vast, rich world of art, if a person is taken as the goal!(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
13. The demands of art from the contemporary artist are so enormous that they can engulf the whole person.(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
14. Art is a means of conversation with people, not a goal... Whatever speech I hear, no matter who speaks (the main thing is whatever they say), my brain is already working musical presentation such speech...(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
15. I want to make people: I sleep and see, I eat and think about it, I drink - it seems to me, it is one whole, big, untinted and without leaf. And what a terrible (truly) wealth folk speech. What an inexhaustible ore for the grip of everything real - the life of the Russian people!(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
16. In the human masses, as in an individual, there are always the finest features that elude the grasp, features that have not yet been touched by anyone: to notice and study them in reading, in observation, by conjecture, to study with all their guts and feed humanity with them, as a healthy dish, which I have not tried yet - that's the task! Delight and pure delight!(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
17. I put a cross on myself, and with my head up, I will cheerfully and cheerfully go against everyone to a bright, strong, righteous goal, to real art, loving person who lives by his joy, his grief and suffering.(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
18. Life, wherever it affects; the truth, no matter how salty; bold, sincere speech to people point-blank, that's my leaven, that's what I want and that's what I would be afraid to miss.(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
19. To the new musical labor, wide musical work calls life; further, even further on the good path, with great zeal to new shores of yet boundless art! To search for these shores, to search tirelessly, without fear and embarrassment, and to stand with a firm foot on the promised land - this is a great, fascinating task!(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
20. The time for leisure writing is over. Give your whole self to people - that's what is needed in art now.(Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
21. The composer, like the poet, sculptor, painter, is called upon to serve man and the people. He must decorate human life and protect her. First of all, he must be a citizen in his art, sing of human life and lead a person to a brighter future. Such, from my point of view, is the unshakable code of art. (Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev)
22. Now is not the time when music was written for a tiny circle of aesthetes. Now huge crowds of people have come face to face with serious music and are waiting inquiringly. Composers, pay attention to this moment; if you push these crowds away, they will go to jazz or to where "Marusya has gone and is lying in the dead." if you keep them, you will get an audience that has not been anywhere and at any time, but it does not follow from this that you need to adapt to this audience. Pampering has an element of insincerity in it, and nothing good has ever come out of patching up. The masses want great music, big events, Great love, cheerful dances. They understand a lot more than some composers think and they want to improve. (Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev)
23. Music must first of all be loved; should come from the heart and be addressed to the heart. Otherwise, music must be deprived of the hope of being an eternal and imperishable art (Sergei Vasilyevich Rahmaninov)
24. Composing music is an integral part of my existence, just like breathing or eating are necessary functions of life. (Sergei Vasilyevich Rahmaninov)
25. Most high quality of any art is its sincerity! (Sergei Vasilyevich Rahmaninov)
26. Music is the noblest, most cordial, most sincere, most charming, most subtle of all that the human spirit has invented! (Anton Grigorievich Rubinshtein)

Fulfillment is the second creation musical composition. (Anton Grigorievich Rubinshtein)

1. You can talk a lot and beautifully, without saying anything wonderful; In music it will be an unusual and beautiful instrumentation of insignificant thoughts, in painting it will be a large boarded-up frame for a small, insignificant picture. (Anton Grigorievich Rubinshtein)
2. An artist should not be born into wealth. Worries about his daily bread are even useful to him at first: they add drama to his work. (Anton Grigorievich Rubinshtein)
3. Thinkers and scientists keep their heads down and for the most part forward; artists and poets keep their heads thrown back and usually look up. (Anton Grigorievich Rubinshtein)
4. The nationality of the country in which the writer was born and brought up will always be visible in his writings, even if he lives in a foreign country and writes in a foreign language. (Anton Grigorievich Rubinshtein)
5. Beautiful women they don't know how to grow old, artists don't know how to leave the stage in time: both are wrong. (Anton Grigorievich Rubinshtein)
6. What a man can't do if he wants to! He must be able to make the impossible possible. I choose this as my motto! (Anton Grigorievich Rubinshtein)
7. Music is the noblest, most cordial, most sincere, most charming, most subtle of all that the human spirit has invented. (Anton Grigorievich Rubinshtein)
8. The main and integral features of the new musical art are modernity and simplicity. (Georgy Vasilievich Sviridov)
9. Real art, apart from purely aesthetic pleasure, pleasure and beauty (and great art brings up the feeling real beauty), brings enormous benefits: it educates a person! (Georgy Vasilievich Sviridov)
10. O life, O creative impulse,

All-Creating Desire:

You are everything. You are an ocean of passions, then raging. then calm.

I love your walls, I love your joy (I don't love only despair). (Alexander Nikolaevich Skryabin)

1. It is impossible to fully explain creativity in words. everything is my creation. But it itself exists only in its creations, it is completely identical with them. I am nothing. I am only what I create. (Alexander Nikolaevich Skryabin)
2. We must not forget that only that which is rooted among the people is lasting. (Sergei Ivanovich Taneev)
3. I personally have great confidence in the musical abilities of the Russian people. We must take care that the dormant creative forces of our people break through and manifest themselves in creations that stand at the level of those immortal folk melodies that constitute unattainable samples for us, learned musicians. (Sergei Ivanovich Taneev)
4. Glory makes people feel that there is power in them, in themselves, and there is nothing more pleasant than to feel power in yourself. (Sergei Ivanovich Taneev)
5. Only by mastering the experience of the great musicians of the past, by developing realistic traditions, is it possible to create works worthy in their content and their level of our era. (Tikhon Nikolaevich Khrennikov)
6. Songness is, I think, that melodic principle that should be present in every work of any composer, acquiring in any genre of music its own specific, personality traits. (Tikhon Nikolaevich Khrennikov)
7. beauty in musicconsists not in a heap of effects and harmonic curiosities, but in simplicity and naturalness. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
8. Music there is a treasury into which every nationality contributes its own, for the common good. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
9. Only that music can touch, shock and hurt, which poured out from the depths of the soul excited by inspiration. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
10. I wish with all the strength of my soul that my music spread, that the number of people who love it, find consolation and support in it, increases. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
11. I grew up in the wilderness, from my earliest childhood I was imbued with the inexplicable beauty of the characteristic features of Russian folk music. I passionately love the Russian element in all its manifestations. I am Russian in the fullest sense of the word. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
12. Russian folk song is the most precious example folk art. Beauty in music does not lie in a heap of effects and harmonic curiosities, but in simplicity and naturalness. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
13. There is dissonance greatest power music. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
14. Inspiration is such a guest who does not like to visit the lazy. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
15. Where the heart is not touched, there can be no music. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
16. Even a person endowed with the seal of a genius does not create anything not only great, but also average, if he does not work hellishly ... (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
17. Everyone in his own way serves the common good - and yet art is, in my opinion, a necessary need for mankind. Outside my musical sphere, I am incapable of serving for the good of my neighbor. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
18. That which is foreign human heart, can not be a source of musical inspiration! (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
19. Love and learn great art music . It will open you the whole world high feelings, passions, thoughts. It will make you spiritually richer. Thanks to music, you will find new powers unknown to you before. You will see life in new tones and colors. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )
20. lovers and connoisseurs music are not born, but become... To fall in love with music, one must first of all listen to it. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )
21. Melody - this is a thought, this is a movement, this is a soul piece of music. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )
22. Music accompanies a person throughout his life... It is difficult to imagine a person's life without music. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )
23. Without the sounds of music, it would be incomplete, deaf, poor. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )
24. People need all kinds of music - from the simple tune of a flute to the sound of a huge symphony orchestra, from a simple popular song to Beethoven's sonatas. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )
25. The treasures of music are inexhaustible, and so are its possibilities in the future. It will forever grow and develop, just as the human spirit will forever grow and expand. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )
26. real music capable of expressing only humane feelings, only advanced humane ideas... We do not know of a single piece of music that glorifies malice, hatred, robbery. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )
27. The artist's talent is not his personal property, it belongs to the people. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )
28. Only that art will live, flourish, be deeply rooted in life, which sees its vocation in serving the great creator of history - the people. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich )

Aphorisms of prominent Russian figures:

1. Music - live speech, sensitively reflecting reality, as well as verbal speech. (Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev)
2. ...music becomes a unity of content-form in the composer's creation...as the embodiment of the thought-idea intoned by him. (Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev)
3. ...melody has been and remains the most predominant manifestation of music and its most understandable and expressive element. (Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev)
4. Composers should strive for a language of music that would be heard by millions of hearts - from mass songs to operas, cantatas and symphonies as high intellectual generalizations. This is where the ideas and forms that bring out these ideas should be directed. We are not talking about cheap rusticity for "uncomprehending" and supposedly lagging behind listeners, but about majestic simplicity, always understandable to people who sincerely crave excitement from native art, and always inherent in the generally significant works of the great democrats of music. (Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev)
5. The influence of music on children is beneficial, and the sooner they begin to experience it for themselves, the better for them. (Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky)
6. Of all the arts subject to man, only music is outside him, above him. Beyond life and beyond life. ( Pavel Vezhinov)
7. Truly invaluable in shaping human personality the role of music. Possessing the ability to touch the innermost strings of the soul, to awaken bright, noble impulses in a person, to embrace the masses in a single mood, music is rightfully considered one of the highest manifestations of human culture. ()
8. Musical art is one of the most powerful means of uniting the broad masses in a single feeling, a single impulse. (Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser)
9. Only greatest art - music - able to touch the depths of the soul. (Maksim Gorky )
10. I don’t know of any other art that can be so infinitely trusted as music ... even literature, which has become soybean for more than 30 years desired profession and subjugating my whole existence, even the wisest book of a great writer or the most exciting poems of the best poets, no matter how passionately I love them, do not convince me that they are right and at the same time do not give me such independence of ideas. as it happens when I listen to music! ( Lev Kassil)
11. Music is an acoustic composition that arouses in us an appetite for life, just as well-known pharmaceutical compositions arouse an appetite for food. (Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky)
12. Happy music makes even happier, unhappy - even more unhappy. ( V. Krachkovsky)
13. Music... has an unusually invigorating and cleansing power. Word and action become highly significant when music takes them on its wings. ()
14. Music is sounds, but music is also a whole mass of feelings that open up in these sounds for sensitive people.(Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky)
15. I don't know if there is even one great musician, which could be said to be outdated. The simplest song coming from the depths of millennia is alive. (Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky)
16. Music is a field in which human art became immeasurably higher than nature. (Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov)
17. Music is more connected with moral deeds person than is commonly thought. (Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky)
18. Don't believe that a person can understand music right away. This is impossible. You have to get used to it first. (Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky)
19. From the pleasures of life

Music yields to one love,

But love is a melody... (Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin "The Stone Guest")

1. I have always loved music. If I didn't have to listen to it for a long time, I would miss it. (Ilya Efimovich Repin)
2. O music! Echo of a distant harmonious world! Sigh of an angel in our soul! ( Jean Paul Richter)
3. Art is inexhaustible, like life. And nothing allows us to feel it better than inexhaustible music. than the ocean of music that fills the ages. ( Romain Rolland)
4. Music is a higher revelation than wisdom. ( Romain Rolland)
5. Music is dear to us because it is the deepest expression of the soul, the harmonic echo of its joys and sorrows. ( Romain Rolland)
6. Music, like rain, seeps into the heart drop by drop and enlivens it. ( Romain Rolland)
7. You can't live without music. This, in my opinion, is the strongest, most powerful art that has amazing power over the souls of people. (Martiros Sergeevich Saryan)
8. For me, the phrase "man and song" sounds like "man and air". If there is not enough air, the person suffocates. (Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov)
9. Music is the language of the soul; it is the realm of feelings and moods; it is the life of the soul expressed in sounds. (Alexander Nikolaevich Serov)
10. Nowhere has a folk song played and does not play such a role as in our people, nowhere has it been preserved in such richness, strength and diversity as it is with us. This gave a special warehouse and physiognomy to Russian music and called it to its own special tasks. (Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov)
11. ...without thought there is no poetry, without melody there is no music. (Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov)
12. Music just like any other human language, should be inseparable from the people, from the soil of this people, from its historical development. (Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov)
13. Music, melody, beauty musical sounds- an important means of moral and mental education of a person, a source of nobility of heart and purity of soul. Music opens people's eyes to the beauty of nature, moral relations, labor. Thanks to music, a person awakens ideas about the sublime, majestic, beautiful not only in the world around him, but also in himself. Music is a powerful means of self-education. ()
14. Music is a powerful source of thought. Without musical education full mental development is impossible. (Vasily Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinsky)
15. Music unites the moral, emotional and aesthetic spheres of a person. Music is the language of feelings. (Vasily Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinsky)
16. Genius, opening the lid of the piano, opens the souls wide open to everyone! (Leonid Semenovich Sukhorukov)
17. True muses play on the strings of their soul. (Leonid Semenovich Sukhorukov)
18. Muse is friends with those who are in the finest harmony with her. (Leonid Semenovich Sukhorukov)
19. The music of the soul is the unsung song of life. (Leonid Semenovich Sukhorukov)
20. The pianist left... But his piano plays in the shower! (Leonid Semenovich Sukhorukov)
21. The higher the good note, the more refined its harmony should be. (Leonid Semenovich Sukhorukov)
22. Music is shorthand for feelingsLev Nikolayevich Tolstoy )
23. Music is the mind embodied in beautiful sounds. (Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev)
24. Melody is music, the main basis of all music... (Anton Pavlovich Chekhov)
25. Great composers have always and above all paid attention to the melody as leading start in music. Melody is music, the main foundation of all music, since perfect melody implies and brings to life its harmonious arrangement. (Anton Pavlovich Chekhov)

Quotes and Aphorisms 24.03.2018

Dear readers, there is no doubt that music plays a huge role in our lives. It inspires and soothes, entertains and gives solemnity. important points, helps to tune in the right way and express something that inspires or disturbs us. Therefore, with such enthusiasm, we not only listen to music, but also talk about it, share our impressions, favorite compositions, and advise what to listen to.

And although, as the famous said American composer and singer Frank Zappa, "talking about music is like dancing about architecture", there are so many quotes about music. And that's what we're talking about today on the blog.

In general, and for each person individually, ancient philosophers and sages wrote. Let's see how accurate and deep their quotes about music are.

What did the greats say about music?

“Music inspires the whole world, supplies the soul with wings, promotes the flight of the imagination; music gives life and fun to everything that exists ... It can be called the embodiment of everything beautiful and everything sublime.

"Difficult to find best method education than that which has already been found by the experience of so many centuries; it can be briefly defined as consisting of gymnastics for the body and music for the soul.”

"For this reason musical education extremely important, because it allows rhythm and harmony to penetrate into the soul as deeply as possible, filling it with beauty and endowing a person with a sense of beauty.
Plato

A student of Plato, Aristotle, who raised Alexander the Great and was no less famous than his teacher, fully shared his opinion about the enormous influence of music on a person.

“Music is capable of exerting a certain influence on the ethical side of the soul; and since music has such properties, it should be included in the number of subjects for the education of young people.

"Music ennobles morals."

Aristotle

These quotes about music with meaning are not just big words. They reflect a reverent attitude to music as a science, as an indisputable and integral part of a person's upbringing and education. And music in ancient times was indeed not only an art - it was one of the most important scientific disciplines along with mathematics, philosophy, medicine.

What is music anyway? Can words describe that great role that it plays in our lives and measure the impact it has on us? Quotes about the music of great people will help us get closer to this understanding.

“Music is a source of joy for wise people, it is able to evoke good thoughts in the people, it penetrates deeply into their consciousness and easily changes mores and customs.”

"Music is the fragrant flower of the benefactor."

Xun Tzu

"Where words end, music begins."

Heinrich Heine

"Music is the universal language of mankind."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Music is not only an ennobling, educational factor. Music is the healer of health.

Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev

"Music is the highest art in the world."

“Music makes me forget myself, my true position, it takes me to some other, not my position; Under the influence of music, it seems to me that I feel what I don’t really feel, that I understand what I don’t understand, that I can do what I can’t ... It, music, immediately immediately transfers me directly to that state of mind, in which was the one who wrote the music. I merge with him in soul and together with him I am transferred from one state to another.

"Music is shorthand for feelings."

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

“No picture, no word can so express the most essential, most intimate content of the heart as music; her cordiality is incomparable, irreplaceable.”

Kuno Fisher

“There are moments when you fully feel the lack of earthly language, you would like to express yourself in some kind of harmony, music. Music is the immaterial daughter of material sounds, it alone can transfer the trembling of one soul to another, pour sweet, unaccountable languor ... "

Alexander Ivanovich Herzen

“The greatness of art, perhaps, is most clearly manifested in music, for it has no content to be reckoned with. She is all forms and fillings. It makes sublime and noble everything that it undertakes to express.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Music is an acoustic composition that makes us hungry for life, just as well-known drugstore compounds make us hungry for food.”

Vasily Klyuchevsky

Music and soul

Quotes about music and the soul reflect the idea of ​​​​the close connection between music and the state of harmony that it causes in us. It is impossible not to succumb to her influence, not to follow her. Music is the tuning fork of our soul, the most obvious indicator of our state of mind. It purifies and awakens our heart, opens it to goodness and light.

“I don’t listen to music, I listen to my soul.”

Marina Tsvetaeva

“Music shows a person the possibilities of greatness that are in his soul.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“God gave us music, so that we, first of all, were drawn upwards by it ...”

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Music is the only world language, it does not need to be translated - the soul speaks to the soul in it."

“Music washes away the dust of everyday life from the soul.”

Berthold Averbakh

“Music, like rain, seeps into the heart drop by drop and enlivens it.”

Romain Rolland

“There is something magical about rhythm: it makes us believe that the sublime belongs to us.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Just as gymnastics straightens the body, so music straightens the human soul.”

Vasily Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinsky

"Only the greatest art - music - can touch the depths of the soul."

Maksim Gorky

Nice about music

You can talk and write about music endlessly and never repeat yourself. Music is air. This is the whole universe. This is something under the influence of which we change, even if we do not realize it. Just listen to what beautiful words said about her, what beautiful quotes about music!

“Music is the pair of art. It is the same for the art of poetry, what dreams are for thought, what for the ocean of waves is the ocean of clouds above it.

Victor Marie Hugo

“Music is inferior to love alone, but love is also a melody.”

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

"Music is the poetry of the air."

Jean Paul

"Music with its melody brings us to the very edge of eternity and gives us the opportunity for a few minutes to comprehend its greatness."

Thomas Carlyle

"Bach almost makes me believe in God..."

Roger Fry

“When music cries, all mankind cries with it, all nature cries.”

Henri Bergson

"Music, without mentioning anything, can say everything."

Ilya Erenburg

famous musicians about music

Our whole world is like huge picture from a mosaic consisting of sounds, colors, light. It is not surprising that with the help of music we get to know the world and open our soul to other people. Opening our musical preferences, we seem to share the most intimate.

And who can say better about music than those who have touched it directly, who are involved in its creation, who bring it into our world. After all, music is their whole life, and in support of this, quotes about the music of famous musicians.

"I live in this world only to write music."

Franz Schubert

“Where words are powerless, a more eloquent language, music, is fully armed.”

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

"Words sometimes need music, but music doesn't need anything."

Edvard Grieg

"The purpose of music is to touch hearts."

Johann Sebastian Bach

“Music embodies feeling, without forcing it to affirm and mix with thought, as it is forced in most arts, especially in the art of the word ...”

Franz Liszt

"Music is the mediator between the life of the mind and the life of the senses."

"Music is a mediator between spiritual and sensual life." “Music is one disembodied entrance to upper world knowledge that mankind comprehends, but which man cannot comprehend.

"Music should strike fire from people's hearts."

Ludwig van Beethoven

"Music needs words as little as sculpture."

Anton Rubinstein

“Love and study the great art of music. It will open to you a whole world of high feelings, passions, thoughts. It will make you spiritually richer. Thanks to music, you will find new, previously unknown strengths in yourself. You will see life in new colors and colors.”

Dmitry Shostakovich

"We don't listen to music, but music listens to us."

Theodor Adorno

Impossible to imagine contemporary music without such a huge cultural layer as rock music. The evolution of this musical direction took less than seventy years, originating from the blues rock and roll, and now it is already occupying a huge musical niche, giving rise to more and more new offshoots. Actually, this is the secret of the popularity of rock music - everyone can find a genre in it to their liking, she will find an approach to everyone and select the right key to her heart. Quotes about rock music and rock musicians are the best way to describe why it has been so popular for many decades in a row.

“Rock is rebellion anyway. Rock is in any case a protest against the system. But this is not necessarily the approval of some other system instead of the existing one. Even if you can’t offer any better alternative, then it’s wrong in my opinion to agree with what is.”

Gleb Samoilov

"Rock is the ability to bring freedom into the world, into the minds of people."

Taylor Momsen

“Rock is movement, it is history, it is truth and freedom, it is a force capable of moving mountains and uniting common efforts. In rock there is no place for hypocrisy, window dressing, parody, lies. Rock is not just music. Rock music is life."

Lusine Gevorgyan

“Our business is not to show technical tricks on the guitar, but to awaken emotions in people!”

David Gilmour

“Music belongs to everyone. Only the record labels still believe they are the owners."

“Rock and roll is eternal because it is simple, there is nothing superfluous in it. His rhythm penetrates all barriers. I read a book by Eldridge Cleaver - he writes about how blacks helped with their music white man find yourself, realize your body. Their music has penetrated us forever. Already at the age of fifteen, for me, nothing but rock and roll in this life no longer existed.

Its strength is in some special realism. The striking naturalness of rock strikes at the very first acquaintance with it. In a word, this is true art.

“I don't know what will disappear first: religion or rock. I bet on the first.

John Lennon

“I am proud that the brand of rock and roll is on my soul!”

Paul McCartney

Music is called to give birth to a flame in the soul - L. Beethoven

Perfect music gives incredible sensations. It is thanks to her that you can feel separation, parting, love, betrayal. You can be with your loved one, even when he is far away - thanks to music. – Stendhal

Real music turns any event, action, feeling into something perfect, into something that you want to fall in love with. It is in it, as in no other art, that life force and inspiration. - I. Goethe

Music is a medicine that helps to overcome depression, the dark side of life, problems and failures. And then - gives the desire to live on. – V. Klyuchevsky

Music is the closest connection with the people. She can change his views, give a new worldview, make him love something new, set him on a different path. Penetrates into the very depths of consciousness. – Mozart

Music does not think, it only embodies other people's thoughts. – L. Beethoven

When something can not be expressed by speech, in ordinary words music comes to the rescue. – E. Hoffman

Continuation beautiful quotes read on pages:

Of all earthly music, closest to heaven is the beat true loving heart. Henry Beecher

The notes I play are no better than those of many other pianists. Pauses between notes - that's where the art lies! Artur Schnabel

I don't know if the angels really only play Bach in the presence of God; but I am sure that in their home circle they play Mozart. Karl Barth

L. Beethoven - Music should strike fire from the human soul.

I liked your opera. Maybe I'll write music for it. Ludwig van Beethoven

My music is best understood by children and animals. Igor Stravinsky

Akhmatova AA – Of all the arts, music is the most humane and widespread.

Music is intelligence embodied in beautiful sounds. – I. Turgenev

Happy music makes even happier, unhappy - even more unhappy. – V. Krachkovsky

The song that a mother sings at the cradle accompanies a person all his life, to the grave. — Biger G.

Plato - Great composers have always and above all paid attention to the melody as the leading principle in music. Melody is music, the main foundation of all music, since perfect melody implies and brings to life its harmonious arrangement.

Jean Paul - What is music? It occupies a place between thought and appearance; like a pre-dawn mediator, she stands between spirit and matter; related to both, it is different from them; this is a spirit in need of measured time; it is matter, but matter which dispenses with space.

R. Bugner - Melody is the only form of music; without melody, music is unthinkable, and music and melody are inseparable.

Music is capable of exerting a certain influence on the ethical side of the soul; and since music has such properties, then, obviously, it should be included in the number of subjects for the education of young people.

R. Wagner - Music is a truly universal language.

Writing music is not so difficult, the hardest thing is to cross out extra notes. – I. Brahms

Aristotle - Music is a mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Life would be a mistake without music. Friedrich Nietzsche

Music is intelligence embodied in beautiful sounds. – Turgenev I.S.

Bach almost makes me believe in God. Roger Fry

Music has no fatherland; her homeland is the whole universe. – F. Chopin

Chekhov A.P. – Music is the best consolation for a sad person.

Of all the arts, music is the most human and widespread. – J.-P. Richter

Music needs words as little as sculpture. Anton Rubinstein

Music is the mediator between the life of the mind and the life of the senses. – L. Beethoven

Xunzi - Music encourages us to think eloquently.

Music is the unconscious exercise of the soul in arithmetic. — Leibniz G.

Shakespeare W. - The greatness of art is most clearly manifested in music.

The fingers should create on the piano what the head wants, and not vice versa. – R. Schumann

Music with its melody brings us to the very edge of eternity and gives us the opportunity to comprehend its greatness within a few minutes. – T. Carlyle

Heine G. – Music is shorthand for feelings.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. David Byrne

Music is the universal language of mankind. – G. Longfellow

God gave us music, so that we, first of all, were drawn upward by it ... - Nietzsche F.

Music, without mentioning anything, can say everything. – I. Ehrenburg

Chesterton G. - Music inspires the whole world, supplies the soul with wings, promotes the flight of the imagination; music gives life and fun to everything that exists ... It can be called the embodiment of everything beautiful and everything sublime.

Goethe - Music is the universal language of mankind.

O music! Echo of a distant harmonious world! Sigh of an angel in our soul! When the word freezes, and the hug, and the eye filled with tears, when our dumb hearts languish alone behind the bars of our chest - oh, then only thanks to you can they send each other a response from their prisons, unite their distant moans in one desert. — Jean Paul

R-Bugner - The Most The best music will have an unenviable fate if he trusts mediocre poetry.

Music washes away the dust of everyday life from the soul. – B. Averbakh

Any art strives to become music. Walter Pater

Tolstoy LN – Music shows a person the possibilities of greatness that are in his soul.

Emerson W. - ... Note to yourself when herds or young horses rush wildly In the steppes A dashing herd - they gallop madly, Roar and neigh - then the blood plays in them. Hot. But as soon as they hear Only the sound of a trumpet or some other Sound of music - as they become rooted to the spot All instantly, and a wild look Under the power of a charming melody Will pass into humility and meekness ...

Music during dinner is an insult to both the cook and the violinist. – G. Chesterton

Always play as if the artist is listening to you. – R. Schumann

Mr. Handel - Music - in best sense this word - less in need of novelty; on the contrary, the older it is, the more correct it is, the stronger its influence.

Music is the true universal human speech. – K. Yu. Weber

Nothing recalls the past like music; it not only reminds him, but evokes him, and like the shadows of those dear to us, it appears wrapped in a mysterious and melancholy haze. – Anna Steel

Music alone is the language of the world and does not need translation, for it speaks to the soul. – B. Averbakh

If a person is not philanthropic, what will he understand in music? Confucius

Aristotle - There is no living creature on earth So hard, cool, hellishly evil, So that music could not make a revolution in it even for one hour. He who does not carry music in himself, Who is cold to charming harmony, He can be a traitor, a liar, a Robber, the souls of his movement are Dark as night, and, like Erebus, His affection is black. Do not trust such a person.

There is no sweeter music in the world than the sound of your favorite voice. – J. La Bruyère

The song is like a gentle haze that, rising from the lake, spills over the silent valley. – Ossian

Music cannot think, but it can embody thought. – R. Wagner

K. Beber - All music comes from the heart and must reach the heart again.

Give me the laundry bill and I'll set it to music. Gioacchino Rossini

Longfellow G. – Music drowns out sadness.

The only possible commentary on a piece of music is another piece of music. Igor Stravinsky

The kind of melancholy that torments me is beyond words. We need music here.

Perfect music brings the heart into exactly the same state as one experiences when enjoying the presence of a beloved being, that is, music gives, undoubtedly, the brightest happiness that is possible on earth. Stendhal

Music is the highest art in the world. Lev Tolstoy

The field of music is spiritual unrest. The purpose of music is to arouse these excitements, and she herself is also inspired by them. — George Sand

B. Arnim - When music cries, all mankind cries with it, all nature cries.

Whoever does not play with the piano does not play on it either. – R. Schumann

Music is the poetry of the air. — Jean Paul

Goethe I. - Music is an acoustic composition that makes us hungry for life, just as well-known pharmaceutical compositions make us hungry for food.

Music, like rain, seeps into the heart drop by drop and enlivens it. — Rollan R.

A. Bergson - Music is a higher revelation than wisdom and philosophy.

Playing the piano - the movement of the fingers; piano performance is a movement of the soul. Usually we hear only the first. – A. Rubinstein

Klyuchevsky V. - And the one whom we call music For lack of a name best name Will save us?

Shakespeare W. - Music with its melody brings us to the very edge of eternity and gives us the opportunity to comprehend its greatness within a few minutes.

Emerson W. - Music during dinner is an insult to both the cook and the violinist.

G. Hauptmann - I would be very sorry if my music only entertained my listeners: I tried to make them better.

1. The matter of harmony is to draw those features that are not and cannot be in the melody. (Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka)
2. Avoid singing in the company of bad amateurs, so you will either be spoiled with excessive praise, which is always harmful, or they will make remarks from which you will be jarred. In the company of real musicians, sing boldly, because from them, except for useful instructions, you will not hear anything else. (Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka)
3. It is possible to combine the requirements of art with the requirements of the age and, taking advantage of the improvement of instruments and performance, write plays that are equally reportable to connoisseurs and ordinary public. (Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka)
4. I want the sound to directly express the word. I want the truth. (Alexander Sergeevich Dargomyzhsky)
5. Music not only gives us pleasure. She teaches a lot. She, like a book, makes us better, smarter, kinder.
6. Spiritual baggage, unlike ordinary baggage, has an amazing property: the larger it is, the easier it is for a person to follow the paths of life. (Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky)
7. Music is an art that has a great power of emotional impact on a person, and that is why it can play a huge role in educating the clergy of children and youth. (Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky)
8. Art is perhaps the most amazing miracle of all miracles. created by mankind throughout the history of its existence, and feeling, thought and beauty are inextricably linked in this miracle. Why deceive people, why impoverish their spiritual world by presenting mediocre deformities, devoid of feelings, thoughts, and beauty, as the highest achievements of art? (Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky)
9. Music is most capable of expressing and conveying spiritual moods. (Caesar Cui)
10. I understand the people as a great personality, animated by a single idea. This is my task! I tried to resolve it in my opera.
11. ... For me, an important article is a faithful reproduction of folk fantasy, no matter how it manifests itself. (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
12. What a vast, rich world of art, if a person is taken as the goal! (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
13. The demands of art from a contemporary figure are so enormous that they can absorb the whole person. (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
14. Art is a means of talking with people, not a goal... Whatever speech I hear, no matter who speaks (the main thing is whatever they say), the musical presentation of such a speech is working in my brain... (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
15. I want to make people: I sleep and see, I eat and think about it, I drink - it seems to me, it is one whole, big, unpainted and without leaf. And what a terrible (truly) wealth of folk speech. What an inexhaustible ore for the grip of everything real - the life of the Russian people! (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
16. In the human masses, as in an individual, there are always the finest features that elude the grasp, features that have not yet been touched by anyone: to notice and study them in reading, in observation, by conjecture, to study with all their guts and feed humanity with them, as healthy a dish that I have not yet tried - that's the task! Delight and pure delight! (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
17. I put a cross on myself, and with my head up, I will cheerfully and cheerfully go against everyone to a bright, strong, righteous goal, to real art, loving a person, living by his joy, his grief and suffering. (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
18. Life, wherever it affects; the truth, no matter how salty; bold, sincere speech to people point-blank, that's my leaven, that's what I want and that's what I would be afraid to miss. (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
19. Life is calling for new musical work, broad musical work; further, even further on the good path, with great zeal to new shores of yet boundless art! To search for these shores, to search tirelessly, without fear and embarrassment, and to stand with a firm foot on the promised land - this is a great, fascinating task! (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
20. The time for writing at leisure has passed. Give your whole self to people - that's what is needed in art now. (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
21. The composer, like the poet, sculptor, painter, is called to serve the person and the people. It should beautify human life and protect it. First of all, he must be a citizen in his art, sing of human life and lead a person to a brighter future. Such, from my point of view, is the unshakable code of art. (Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev)
22. Now is not the time when music was written for a tiny circle of aesthetes. Now huge crowds of people have come face to face with serious music and are waiting inquiringly. Composers, pay attention to this moment; if you push these crowds away, they will go to jazz or to where "Marusya has gone and is lying in the dead." if you keep them, you will get an audience that has not been anywhere and at any time, but it does not follow from this that you need to adapt to this audience. Pampering has an element of insincerity in it, and nothing good has ever come out of patching up. The masses want great music, great events, great love, merry dancing. They understand a lot more than some composers think and they want to improve. (Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev)
23. Music must first of all be loved; should come from the heart and be addressed to the heart. Otherwise, music must be deprived of the hope of being an eternal and imperishable art.
24. Composing music is an integral part of my existence, just like breathing or eating are necessary functions of life. (Sergei Vasilyevich Rahmaninov)
25. The highest quality of any art is its sincerity! (Sergei Vasilyevich Rahmaninov)
26. Music is the noblest, most cordial, most sincere, most charming, most subtle of all that the human spirit has invented! (Anton Rubinstein)
The performance is the second creation of a musical composition. (Anton Rubinstein)
27. You can talk a lot and beautifully, without saying anything wonderful; In music it will be an unusual and beautiful instrumentation of insignificant thoughts, in painting it will be a large boarded-up frame for a small, insignificant picture. (Anton Rubinstein)
28. An artist should not be born into wealth. Worries about his daily bread are even useful to him at first: they add drama to his work. (Anton Rubinstein)
29. Thinkers and scientists keep their heads down and mostly forward; artists and poets keep their heads thrown back and usually look up. (Anton Rubinstein)
30. The nationality of the country in which the writer was born and brought up will always be visible in his writings, even if he lives in a foreign country and writes in a foreign language. (Anton Rubinstein)
31. Beautiful women do not know how to grow old, artists do not know how to leave the stage in time: both are wrong. (Anton Rubinstein)
32. What can a person not be able to do if he wants to! He must be able to make the impossible possible. I choose this as my motto! (Anton Rubinstein)
33. Music is the noblest, most cordial, most sincere, most charming, most subtle of all that the human spirit has invented. (Anton Rubinstein)
34. The main and integral features of the new in the art of music are modernity and simplicity.
35. Real art, in addition to purely aesthetic pleasure, pleasure and beauty (and great art educates a sense of real beauty), brings enormous benefits: it educates a person! (Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov)
36. O life, O creative impulse,
All-Creating Desire:
You are everything. You are an ocean of passions, then raging. then calm.
I love your walls, I love your joy (I don't love only despair). (A.N.Scriabin)
37. It is impossible to fully explain creativity in words. everything is my creation. But it itself exists only in its creations, it is completely identical with them. I am nothing. I am only what I create. (A.N.Scriabin)
38. We must not forget that only that which nests among the people with its roots is lasting. (S.I. Taneev)
39. I personally have great confidence in the musical abilities of the Russian people. We must take care that the dormant creative forces of our people break through and manifest themselves in creations that stand at the level of those immortal folk melodies that constitute unattainable samples for us, learned musicians. (S.I. Taneev)
40. Glory makes people feel that there is strength in them, in themselves, and there is nothing more pleasant than to feel strength in oneself. (S.I. Taneev)
41. Only by mastering the experience of the great musicians of the past, by developing realistic traditions, is it possible to create works worthy in their content and in their level of our era. (T.N. Khrennikov)
42. Songliness, I think, is that melodic principle that should be present in every work of any composer, acquiring its own specific, individual features in any genre of music. (T.N. Khrennikov)
43. Beauty in music does not consist in a heap of effects and harmonic curiosities, but in simplicity and naturalness. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
44. Music is a treasury into which every nationality contributes its own, for the common good. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
45. Only that music can touch, shock and hurt, which has poured out from the depths of the soul excited by inspiration. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
46. ​​I wish with all the strength of my soul that my music spread, that the number of people who love it, find consolation and support in it, increases. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
47. I grew up in the wilderness, from my earliest childhood I was imbued with the inexplicable beauty of the characteristic features of Russian folk music. I passionately love the Russian element in all its manifestations. I am Russian in the fullest sense of the word. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
48. Russian folk song is the most precious example of folk art. Beauty in music does not lie in a heap of effects and harmonic curiosities, but in simplicity and naturalness. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
49. Dissonance is the greatest power of music. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
50. Inspiration is such a guest who does not like to visit the lazy. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
51. Where the heart is not touched, there can be no music. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
52. Even a person endowed with the seal of a genius does not create anything, not only great, but also average, if he does not work hellishly ... (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
53. Everyone in his own way serves the common good - and yet art is, in my opinion, a necessary need for humanity. Outside my musical sphere, I am incapable of serving for the good of my neighbor. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
54. What is alien to the human heart cannot be a source of musical inspiration! (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
55. Love and study the great art of music. It will open to you a whole world of high feelings, passions, thoughts. It will make you spiritually richer. Thanks to music, you will find new powers unknown to you before. You will see life in new tones and colors.
56. Lovers and connoisseurs of music are not born, but become ... To fall in love with music, you must first of all listen to it. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich)
57. Melody is a thought, it is movement, it is the soul of a piece of music. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich)
58. Music accompanies a person throughout his life ... It is difficult to imagine a person's life without music. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich)
59. Without the sounds of music, she would be incomplete, deaf, poor. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich)
60. People need all kinds of music - from the simple tune of a flute to the sound of a huge symphony orchestra, from a simple popular song to Beethoven's sonatas. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich)
61. The treasures of music are inexhaustible, and so are its possibilities in the future. It will forever grow and develop, just as the human spirit will forever grow and expand. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich)
62. Real music is capable of expressing only humane feelings, only advanced humane ideas... We do not know of a single piece of music that glorifies malice, hatred, robbery. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich)
63. The artist's talent is not his personal property, it belongs to the people. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich)
64. Only that art will live, flourish, be deeply rooted in life, which sees its vocation in serving the great creator of history - the people. (Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich)