Richard Strauss Quotes

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

I am not old but mellow like good wine.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

Time puts things in proper perspective.

When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.

Sometimes, ideas are like good wine in that they just need time.

The best wines take the longest to mature.

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

It took me a lifetime.

As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

You can't rush good wine. It has to sit. And when you finally drink it, it's the bomb. It's worth the wait.

You can't hurry creativity, so take time to ponder your ideas. Sit back and take time to think things over. That's usually how the best ideas bloom.

What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

I really am a strong believer that with editing, it should take a long time. Even you yourself are not capable of making the right decisions; sometimes you need a distance.

Don't decide yet," Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.

There's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.

If there be one attribute of the Deity which astonishes me more than another, it is the attribute of patience. The Great Soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. In the realm of nature, every thing has been wrought out in the august consciousness of infinite leisure; and I bless God for that geology which gives me a key to the patience in which the creative process was effected.