Gustav Mahler Quote

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

William Faulkner

• Music
• Words

My son always says I like very weird music.

Cornelia Funke

Where words fail, music speaks.

Hans Christian Andersen

• Music
• Words

When words leave off, music begins.

Heinrich Heine

• Music
• Words

Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.

Gustav Mahler

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

Mira Nair

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

Pythagoras

• Words

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Oscar Wilde

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Henry David Thoreau

• People

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

Charlie Chaplin

As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.

Alanis Morissette

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

• Self-discovery

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.

Victor Hugo

• Music
• Words

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Robert Frost

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

Gustav Mahler

• Music
• Thinking

My mother had to explain that one couldn't compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.

Sergei Prokofiev

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

Claude Debussy

• Music
• Passion

I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.

Justin Timberlake

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

William Shakespeare

• Words

I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.

John Malkovich