Chamber Music Quotes
16 quotes by 13 authors
-
I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I…
— Amos Oz
-
What isn’t on my iPod playlist? I have very eclectic tastes. Jazz. Classic Rock. Hip Hop. Ska. Soul. Electronica.World Music. Funk. Blues. Chamber Music. Reggaeton.…
— Michele Norris
-
Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their…
— Elliott Sharp
-
Chamber music - a conversation between friends.
— Catherine Drinker Bowen
-
I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.
— S. J. Perelman
-
Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum…
— George Steiner
-
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
— Gustav Mahler
-
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
— Neville Marriner
-
I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some…
— Colm Toibin
-
A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.
— Andre Previn
-
In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me.…
— Karen DeCrow
-
Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is…
— Karen DeCrow
-
In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.
— Karen DeCrow
-
Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is…
— Karen DeCrow
-
If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music.
— Christo
-
If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society,…
— Peter Maxwell Davies
Who Wrote These Chamber Music Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 16 Chamber Music Quotes as follows: