Quotes About Genius

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.

[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

If someone can write great music... Paul McCartney is a genius. He's so prolific. All we should do is bow down to Paul McCartney.

I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.

To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.

Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.

Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!

... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't even begin to imagine where he came from

You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!

There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.

Someone like Mozart moves from Salzburg to Vienna, where all of the sudden he finds this musical city that is not only asking for music, it's demanding music of him.

Deserts look beautiful and green fields look beautiful too. Nature is genius because it knows how to look beautiful in every way.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played out sexually or not.

For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.