Quotes of Felix Mendelssohn - somelinesforyou

“ The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. ”

- Felix Mendelssohn

“ Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God. ”

- Felix Mendelssohn

“ The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. ”

- Felix Mendelssohn

“ These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words. ”

- Felix Mendelssohn

“ The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. ”

- Felix Mendelssohn

“ The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. ”

- Felix Mendelssohn

“ Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure. ”

- Felix Mendelssohn

“ These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words. ”

- Felix Mendelssohn

“ The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. ”

- Felix Mendelssohn

“ These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words. ”

- Felix Mendelssohn

“ The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. ”

- Felix Mendelssohn
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