Brahms Quote by Bennett Cerf

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

“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

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

— George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

— Franz Liszt

Brahms is life-changing every time. And though I love him, I can't say that about Mompou.

— Stephen Hough

After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

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

“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