Top 15 Gabriel Fauré Quotes

Phillips, Edward R. (2000). Gabriel Fauré: A Research and Information Guide. New York: Routledge. .

Mason, Daniel Gregory (1915). "Fauré and the Beginning of the New". The Art of Music: The Voice and Vocal Music. New York: The National Society of Music. pp. 347-353

Hale, Philip; Elson, Louis Charles, editors (1900). "Gabriel Fauré". Famous Composers and Their Works, Volume 5. Boston: J. B. Millet Company. pp. 79-86.

Elliot, Jr., Gilbert (July 1913). "Gabriel Fauré and His Songs". Harvard Musical Review. Volume 1, Number 10. pp. 10 and 25-27.

Laloy, Louis (December 1906). "Gabriel Fauré". The Music Lover's Calendar. Volume II.

"Common Chord" (August 16, 1905). "Key Notes: New Director of the Paris Conservatoire". The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality. Volume 51, Number 655.

For me art and music especially consists of raising ourselves as high as possible above that which is.

Imagining is trying to formulate all one would wish to be better, all that surpasses reality.

And I always enjoy seeing sunlight play on the rocks, the water, the trees and plains. What variety of effects, what brilliance and what softness... I wish my music could show as much diversity.

He denied the presence of inspiration: "Without work, which is art, there is nothing," he said. "Say only that which is of value, or stay silent" was the credo of his entire existence.

How many times have I asked myself what use music is? And what am I translating? What feelings? What ideas? How can I express something I do not understand myself?

To know an art really well, one must know everything about it, both its origins and its development.

When I am no more, you will hear said of my work: "After all, it is only so much..." You will detach yourself from it, perhaps ... All that has no importance. I have done what I could ... and so, judge, my God.

As for my work, I can say that it reaches its end. [...] I do not want my Quartet to be published and played before it has been tried out in front of my friends, who have always been the first to hear my works: Dukas, Poujaud, Lalo, de Lallemand. I trust their judgment and it is to them that I leave the decision of whether this Quartet should be published or destroyed.

As to the piece I have started, it will only be the fiftieth or more of my piano pieces that, with rare exceptions, pianists allow to pile up without playing, That has been their lot for twenty years."