"Strauss" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... move from the spot where he left her. Out under the palms in the hall, the orchestra was beginning one of Strauss' most distracting waltzes; her fingers tapped the time. Suddenly she held ...
— A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill • Alice Hegan Rice
... aussi, je reste dans mon trou, et mon trou est assez beau pour que j'y reste, car mon trou est—Richard Wagner. My trou is the Ring—the Sacrosanct Ring. Again I fall to musing. The intention of Liszt and Wagner and Strauss was to write music. However long Wotan might ponder on Mother Earth the moment comes when the violins begin to sing; ah! how the spring uncloses in the orchestra, and the lovers fly ...
— Memoirs of My Dead Life • George Moore
... astonishing to strangers as our signboards. Those beautiful paintings that you see—Am Graben and Hohe Markt,—real works of art, with which the sign-boards of other countries are no more to be compared, than your hum-drum English music is to the delicious waltzes of Lanner, or the magic polkas of Strauss. Imagine an Englishman, who knows nothing of painting, finding himself all at once in front of one of those charming compositions—pictures that they would make a gallery of in London, but which we can afford to put out of doors; he is fixed, he is dumb with ...
— A Tramp's Wallet - stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France • William Duthie
... the waltzes the great Strauss wrote, Mad with melody, rhythm—rife From the very first to the final note. Give ...
— Poems of Cheer • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... music from Bach to Beethoven and from Beethoven to Wagner—yes, even to Richard Strauss—but enthusiasm with discipline? German music has been our mobilization; it has gone on just as in a partitur by Richard Wagner—absolute ...
— What Germany Thinks - The War as Germans see it • Thomas F. A. Smith
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