I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
At first I thought I should be a second Beethoven; presently I found that to be another Schubert would be good; then… — Engelbert Humperdinck Copy Share Image
In my study I can lay my hand on the Bible in the pitch dark. All truly inspired ideas come from God.… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
“That’s why I like to listen to Schubert while I’m driving. Like I said, it’s because all the performances are imperfect. A… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The cause of freedom, in music as elsewhere, is now very nearly triumphant; but at a time when its adversaries were many… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
I planted some jokes in my wedding. Like, the organizers asked me to select music. So when I approached wife at the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
When people listen to my music, I hope that they will notice that if you take a piece by a composer like… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range. — Artur Schnabel Copy Share Image
In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with… — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy… — Cecilia Bartoli Copy Share Image
As to...old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the opening lines, Sleeping with Schubert is a hilarious, whimsical romp through the looking glass of a great musical mystery. The… — Jonis Agee Copy Share Image
If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed… — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
A culture that gave the world the spiritual creations of the Classical Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Schubert, the paintings of… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived.... His… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
I consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece. Think about it this way: If you think about a pianist who… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Chopin was the first piano composer who knew exactly how to make piano sound reach fullness, radiance and grandness. What to regard… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a… — James Brown Copy Share Image
