Concerto Quotes

31 quotes by 28 authors

A review of his work: His music soon spread throughout Europe, and he was invited to America were he performed the Piano Concerto. He would… — Ottorino Respighi
Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal… — Frank Schoonmaker
It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo in which to… — Naomi Ragen
The virtuoso element in jazz playing, all those very fast runs in the upper extremes, simply doesn't appeal to me. That's why I don't want… — Gavin Bryars
In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity — Gyorgy Ligeti
When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand. In the hands… — Robert Greenberg
Tchaikovskyâ€™s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear. — Eduard Hanslick
It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front of an assembled audience of… — Linda Lavin
Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time. — Nigel Kennedy
Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third… — Douglas Adams
Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time... Ballads, polonaises, even a whole concerto… — Claude Debussy
When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all… — Itzhak Perlman
The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually… — George Shearing
It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur… — Richard Dawkins
Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there. — Garrison Keillor
There are many collaborations I'd like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem. — Evelyn Glennie
It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra. — Leila Josefowicz
I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't find anything. So… — Christopher Moore
Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto. — Lope de Vega
My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto. — Ram Dass

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