24 Quotes by Felix Mendelssohn

The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.

-Felix Mendelssohn

Life and art are not two different things...

-Felix Mendelssohn

It’s not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise...

-Felix Mendelssohn

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    I dislike nothing more than finding fault with a man’s nature or talent; it only depresses and worries and does no good; one cannot add a cubit to one’s stature, all striving and struggling are useless there, so one has to be silent about it, and let the responsibility rest with God.

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I dislike nothing more than finding fault with a man’s nature or talent; it only depresses and worries and does no good; one cannot add a cubit to one’s stature, all striving and struggling are useless there, so one has to be silent about it, and let the responsibility rest with God.

-Felix Mendelssohn

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    This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another’s most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.

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This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another’s most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.

-Felix Mendelssohn

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

-Felix Mendelssohn

 

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