Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.More Hector Berlioz quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense of being alone in an empty universe, the agonies that thrilled through me as if the blood were running ice-cold through my veins, the disgust with living, the impossibility of dying. Shakespeare himself never described this torture; but he counts it, in Hamlet, among the terrible of all the evils of existence. I had stopped composing; my mind seemed to become feebler as my feelings grew More Hector Berlioz quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The music causes me to dream of fabulous empires, filled with fabulous sins.More Hector Berlioz quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Bach is Bach just as God is God.More Hector Berlioz quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.More Hector Berlioz quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]