Schubert Quotes

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

For me, Schubert contains the world.

Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things, of the social conditions under which Schubert had to work.

But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach.

With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart.

Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act.

But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow.