Richard Strauss Quotes

• The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play.

  Richard Strauss

  Beautiful, Play, Voice

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• I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

  Richard Strauss

  Inspiring, Music, Second Chance

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• Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen.

  Richard Strauss

  Taken, Wine, Ideas

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• I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher.

  Richard Strauss

  Beer, Glasses, Want

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• Never look at the trombones, you'll just encourage them.

  Richard Strauss

  Looks, Performing, Trombone

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• I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

  Richard Strauss

  Fin

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• The most perfect melodic shapes are found in Mozart; he has the lightness of touch which is the true objective ... Listen to the remarkable expansion of a Mozart melody, to Cherubino's 'Voi che sapete', for instance. You think it is coming to an end, but it goes farther, even farther.

  Richard Strauss

  Thinking, Perfect, Shapes

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• Its a funny thing Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und Verklärung.

  Richard Strauss

  Funny Things, Dying, Way

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• The aria, after all, is the soul of opera.

  Richard Strauss

  Soul, Opera, Aria

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• On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.

  Richard Strauss

  Perfect, Balance, Conducting

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• Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch?

  Richard Strauss

  Lying, Years, Creating

  Richard Strauss, Stefan Zweig (1977). “A Confidential Matter: The Letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935”, p.39, Univ of California Press

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• don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm.

  Richard Strauss

  Conducting, Should, Audience

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• If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees.

  Richard Strauss

  Couple, Thinking, Degrees

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• Never look at the brass - it only encourages them.

  Richard Strauss

  Music, Looks, Brass

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• He'd be better off shoveling snow.

  Richard Strauss

  Snow, Musical, Better Off

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