Brahms Quote by Bennett Cerf Download Open image “The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.” — Bennett Cerf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brahms Detroit Last night Lasts Lost Night Quartets String quartets Strings
Brahms stayed an extra day to hear my [Fifth] Symphony and was very kind ... I like his honesty and open-mindedness. Neither he nor… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
“Classical music is not really my thing, and I know absolutely nothing about it. If you told me you saw Brendel play Brahms last… — David Rosenfelt 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 style of… — Elliott Carter 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 making a… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his. — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
Brahms is life-changing every time. And though I love him, I can't say that about Mompou. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Last year in Germany at a town hall in Leipzig there was a game music concert played by the orchestra and some of the… — Nobuo Uematsu 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 untouched, saying… — Hugo Wolf Copy Share Image
“Part of what Brahms and others could never quite get over was that Bruckner the composer of epic symphonies behaved, much of the time,… — Jan Swafford Copy Share Image
Television, I love it, everything that happened before television lumped together, never caused folks to turn on a street to stare at me, or… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
A person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
“Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
Everybody was being decent, and when people are decent, thing work out for everybody. That has been my theory all through life. If you're… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
For me, a hearty elly laugh is one of the beautiful sounds in the world. — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian… — 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 important thing… — 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 play Brahms'… — 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 things away.… — 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 on for… — 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 - that… — 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 the Brahms-Paganini… — 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 style of… — 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 Brahms ballades… — Daniel Breaker Copy Share Image
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