Brahms Quote by Carlo Grante

To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or Brahms work…

— Leonard Slatkin

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

There is no piece of guitar music that has the formal beauty of a piano sonata by Mozart, or the richly worked out ideas…

— Julian Bream

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

— Franz Liszt

I love Arthur Rubinstein, especially his live recordings. I think his Chopin Mazurkas, his interpretation of the Polonaises, and the Concertos of Chopin are…

— Rafal Blechacz

If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you…

— Kurt Masur

The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethoven’s. The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The richest, the…

— Joseph Joachim

Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce.

— Mao Zedong

Deep down, classical Romantic music is what I love: Brahms, Tchaikovsky, the Romantics.

— Ramin Djawadi

I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own thing. There…

— Nina Simone

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

— Felicity Kendal

It is important for the musician to learn as much about the composer as possible and to study the music he has written. Then,…

— Vladimir Horowitz