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Organist Inspirational Quotes (678)

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I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade them from it either by words or by chastisements.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.
Albert Schweitzer
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Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
Albert Schweitzer
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Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach
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Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.
Olivier Messiaen
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Not that I have anything against music now, but I just hated being an anything. I don't know why.
Charlemagne Palestine
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As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
Albert Schweitzer
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Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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I don't like the piano player music of the movies, the Michael Nyman, and sometimes that piano music makes me puke. It's not really romantic. It's just trying to get your Pavlovian juices flowing because it's a technique now.
Charlemagne Palestine
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Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
Albert Schweitzer
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It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within.
Albert Schweitzer
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God is ever before my eyes. I realize his omnipotence and I fear His anger but I also recognize his compassion, and His tenderness towards His creatures.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is wrong and arises from insular ignorance.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Love demands all, and has a right to all.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
Albert Schweitzer
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The Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma.
Albert Schweitzer
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People usually complain that music is so ambiguous, and what they are supposed to think when they hear it is so unclear, while words are understood by everyone. But for me it is exactly the opposite...what the music I love expresses to me are thoughts not to indefinite for words, but rather too definite.
Felix Mendelssohn
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As ability goes, so goes our fortune.
Leon Battista Alberti
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It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.
Nadia Boulanger
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Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach
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An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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