Quotes by Franz Schubert

About Franz Schubert:

Franz Peter Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers of the late Classical era and early Romantic era and is one of the most frequently performed composers of the early nineteenth century.
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One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?

Franz Schubert

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

Franz Schubert

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Franz Schubert

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

Franz Schubert

There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.

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I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.

Franz Schubert

Why does God endow us with compassion?

Franz Schubert

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

Franz Schubert

A man endures misfortune without complaint.

Franz Schubert

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

Franz Schubert

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.

Franz Schubert

Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.

Franz Schubert

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

Franz Schubert

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

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Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.

Franz Schubert

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Franz Schubert

The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

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The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.

Franz Schubert

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

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Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?

Franz Schubert

Author Bio

  • NameFranz Schubert
  • DescriptionAustrian composer
  • AliasesFranz Peter Schubert; Schubert
  • BornJanuary 31, 1797
  • DiedNovember 19, 1828
  • CountryAustria
  • ProfessionComposer
  • WorksSymphony No. 1; Symphony No. 2; Symphony No. 3