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Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy…
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If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.
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It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
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Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the…
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A symphony is no joke.
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Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye,…
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We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we…
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One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.
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Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.
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The idea comes to me from outside of me - and is like a gift. I then take the idea and make…
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Study Bach. There you will find everything.
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The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men…
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The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men…
— Johannes Brahms
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... Beethoven concertos ... Tchaicovsky concertos ... with a lot of these wonderful masterpieces there's always something wonderful to find ... there's…
— Itzhak Perlman
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I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as…
— Oscar Peterson
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The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethoven’s. The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The…
— Unknown Author
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We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.
— Robert Schumann
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If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.
— Leila Josefowicz
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A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of…
— Evelyn Glennie
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Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that…
— Twyla Tharp
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After recording the Tchaikovsky and Beethoven concertos, I felt that all my ambitions had really come true.
— Vanessa Mae
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