I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time. — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
Reviewer: 'One of your themes was very similar to one of Beethoven's!' Brahms replied, 'Of course it is. Everyone steals - the… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I started very young, so I read music very well. And my favorite composers to play are Brahms and Mozart. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I play a lot chamber music.As for something that's hard for me to play, before I leave this Earth I'm hoping to… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Brahms once remarked that the mark of an artist is how much he throws away. Nature, the great creator, is always throwing… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone… — Rahsaan Roland Kirk Copy Share Image
A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples… — Edvard Grieg Copy Share Image
The only work that can be compared to Chopin's Etudes, innovatively, where every note is essential and one becomes completely exposed, is… — Carlo Grante Copy Share Image
That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing… — Daniel Breaker Copy Share Image
Mostly your love is passionate force. But when this passionate force turns itself to be a compassionate force under the guidance of… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
We'll win, of course," he said. "You don't want that," said the demon. "Why not, pray?“ “Listen," said Crowley desperately, "how many… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy". — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it… — Hugo Wolf Copy Share Image
I stick to playing Brahms, but I love listening to Led Zeppelin, and I've also been a big fan of Earth Wind… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have the feeling that you are not quite aware--and this honors you--of the historical greatness of your position, that you… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics,… — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
Brahms stayed an extra day to hear my [Fifth] Symphony and was very kind ... I like his honesty and open-mindedness. Neither… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be… — Jane Asher Copy Share Image
The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins. — Hans von Bulow Copy Share Image
The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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