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Top 20 Johannes Brahms Quotes (2025 Update)

Johannes Brahms Quote: “Study Bach. There you will find everything.”

1. “Study Bach. There you will find everything.”

— Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms Quote: “Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.”

2. “Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.”

— Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms Quote: “Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.”

3. “Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.”

— Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms Quote: “The idea comes to me from outside of me – and is like a gift. I then take the idea and make it my own – that is where the skill lies.”

4. “The idea comes to me from outside of me – and is like a gift. I then take the idea and make it my own – that is where the skill lies.”

— Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms Quote: “One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.”

5. “One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.”

— Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms Quote: “If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.”

6. “If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.”

— Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms Quote: “In my study I can lay my hand on the Bible in the pitch dark. All truly inspired ideas come from God. The powers from which all truly great composers like Mozart, Schubert, Bach and Beethoven drew their inspirations is the same power that enabled Jesus to do his miracles.”

7. “In my study I can lay my hand on the Bible in the pitch dark. All truly inspired ideas come from God. The powers from which all truly great composers like Mozart, Schubert, Bach and Beethoven drew their inspirations is the same power that enabled Jesus to do his miracles.”

— Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms Quote: “To follow in Beethoven’s footsteps transcends one’s strength.”

8. “To follow in Beethoven’s footsteps transcends one’s strength.”

— Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms Quote: “The only true immortality lies in one’s children.”

9. “The only true immortality lies in one’s children.”

— Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms Quote: “It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace.”

10. “It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace.”

— Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms Quote: “Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.”

11. “Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.”

— Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms Quote: “If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.”

12. “If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.”

— Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms Quote: “How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating.”

13. “How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating.”

— Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms Quote: “Straightaway the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God.”

14. “Straightaway the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God.”

— Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms Quote: “In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary waters and bearss them onward in larger and statelier volume.”

15. “In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary waters and bearss them onward in larger and statelier volume.”

— Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms Quote: “Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it.”

16. “Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it.”

— Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms Quote: “For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.”

17. “For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.”

— Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms Quote: “The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart’s concertos, is what permits men like us to become famous.”

18. “The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart’s concertos, is what permits men like us to become famous.”

— Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms Quote: “My things really are written with an appalling lack of practicality!”

19. “My things really are written with an appalling lack of practicality!”

— Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms Quote: “I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.”

20. “I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.”

— Johannes Brahms

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