Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude,… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and… — Ian Hornak Copy Share Image
When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas For wind instruments was… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians say the… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel,… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
A strange adventure befell me while I was playing my Sonata in B flat minor before some English friends. I had played… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The Unicorn Sonata... tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes -… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting. — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
For me, even my break time I like to pull out the bow and just go over a Vivaldi sonata and keep… — Chris Wyse Copy Share Image
The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal… — Leopold Auer Copy Share Image
The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists. — Artur Schnabel Copy Share Image
