Top 138 Vienna Quotes & Sayings

Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.

I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.

My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews. My parents loved the dialect of Vienna, its cultural sophistication, and artistic values.

I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed

The Congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

My mother was one of the first women admitted to Vienna University and her word was law.

[Eva Braun] also stayed with [Adolf Hitler] at the Hotel Imperial in Vienna, the Hotel Dreesen in Bad Godesberg and a few other places. I was never with her in these places, though my mother was there in Vienna.

I now have plans to create a school for singers in Vienna, and I would love to found one in the Middle East, too, if possible.

Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties.

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

You need some reason why Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn in the 18th century all flocked to Vienna. What was it about Vienna? They must have known on some level that that is where they would flourish. It's what biologists call "selective migration."

Friends from Vienna visit me a lot, and when the weather's bad we usually end up playing 'FIFA.'

I'm an immigrant - I've got to be in the city: London, Vienna, or Rome, but always a city.

The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.

[During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I'm not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets.

From Paris we took the Orient Express to Vienna. I must say I was terribly disappointed; nobody was murdered on the train.

I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.

If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me.

What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.

If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Leon Trotsky and possibly Adolf Hitler, who lived in Vienna at the same time.

Vienna, to me it was the tuning fork for the entire world. Saying the word Vienna was like striking a tuning fork and then listening to find what tone it called forth in the person I was talking to. It was how I tested people. If there was no response, this was not the kind of person I liked. Vienna wasn't just a city, it was a tone that either one carries forever in one's soul or one does not. It was the most beautiful thing in my life. I was poor, but I was not alone, because I had a friend.

For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.

From Vienna with Love' will build a bridge across the globe from Vienna to Sydney, full of music, love and fun. I am really looking forward to performing with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and fabulous guest artists who all have ties to Vienna and telling a story with music that inspired me and songs from my debut album.

I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.

Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy when he was 16 and spent most of his life in Vienna. He's the key composer between classic music and romantic music. Beethoven was the beginning of romantic music, and he was the teacher of Beethoven and Schubert.

The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.

The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are . . . the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community.

Vienna is a city where they love sports.

I have the feeling that I was born in Vienna in order to live in Paris.

I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to.

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.

I employ 20 people in Vienna. The other 130 coworkers are pilots and flight companions. The Overhead is limited with me. Reduces naturally the costs of my fliers.

After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.

The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.

In December of 1952, my first wife, Kirby, and I left Vienna to drive through the Russian sector of Austria into Yugoslavia.

I am a song of my times. I wasn't living in Vienna, like Mozart or Beethoven. In my circumstances, it was impossible to be indifferent.

The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that they are not the Vienna Philharmonic and never will be.

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.

Everywhere I went, Rapid Vienna or Austria Vienna, there was always a problem. I just wanted a coach who said: 'Just go out and win us the game.'

Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, none of them were born in Vienna. They all moved there. It became a magnet, but what made it magnetized in the first place? There has to be a seed there. In the case of Vienna of about 1780, it was this deep-seated love of music.

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh.

I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture that Vienna represents. What really captures me is the period around 1900 - the time of Freud, Schnitzler and Klimt. This is the period in which the modern view of mind was born.

My family had to live in Vienna for three months, then in Italy for another nine, while we waited for refugee status.

But yes, I really feel great in Austria, I love my home and Vienna is just the best place to be.

You might be a redneck if your wife keeps a can of Vienna sausage in her purse.

Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.

I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my way over to New York in '95.

My parents came a long time ago to Vienna, met in Vienna. Of course they had to go through a lot also, but we're very happy to have our home in Vienna.

When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

He's going to audition for the Vienna Boys' Choir!

You don't need to go to Rome, Prague or Vienna to find wonderful architecture, amazing stories and suprising, hidden gems.