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Organist Inspirational Quotes (678)

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It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not pay, to use an American expression - at least, not in the beginning - and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap.
Antonin Dvorak
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Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.
Nadia Boulanger
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For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.
Albert Schweitzer
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What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Leopold Stokowski
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A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
Albert Schweitzer
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From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.
Albert Schweitzer
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It looks wrong, and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
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The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.
David Tudor
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It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.
Albert Schweitzer
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From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.
Albert Schweitzer
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I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, of all those concert halls, of all those countries. I did not know what it was like to direct a band... All I wanted was to be big, to be in show-business, and to travel...and that's what I've been doing all my life.
Count Basie
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Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.
Alan Hovhaness
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There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.
Albert Schweitzer
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To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.
Nadia Boulanger
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Example is leadership.
Albert Schweitzer
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How glad I am to be able to roam in the wood and thicket, among trees and flowers and rocks ... in the country, every tree seems to speak to me, saying, Holy! Holy, in the woods, there is enchantment which expresses all things.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.
Albert Schweitzer
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Life and art are not two different things.
Felix Mendelssohn
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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
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