Composer Quote by Antonio Damasio

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

— John Edensor Littlewood

I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also…

— Colm Toibin

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

— Michael Tilson Thomas

I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music…

— I. M. Pei

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind…

— Jascha Heifetz

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

— John Philip Sousa

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to…

— Cheryl Mendelson

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly…

— A. R. Rahman

There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear…

— Virginia Graham

I grew up on Bach and Beethoven and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly…

— A. R. Rahman

I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.

— David Canary