Handel Quotes
18 quotes by 16 authors
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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Karen Handel has run a 100 percent negative campaign.
— Nathan Deal
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Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis…
— George Frideric Handel
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I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be…
— Jimi Hendrix
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Handel, to him I bow the knee.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's also important to…
— Cecilia Bartoli
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Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.
— Dave Brubeck
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You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my…
— Isaac Mizrahi
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An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and…
— James Fenton
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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
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Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a Michelangelo or a…
— Brigham Young
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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The King walks. He nods. His glance is like God's touch - under it all things spring to life. A wave of his hand and…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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Some niggas just can't Handel the responsibility and privilege of having one faithful girl. They want millions of hoes.
— Kira
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When tears are to many and the love and the love is to little, when you want to smile but you have to sigh and…
— Amiea
Who Wrote These Handel Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 18 Handel Quotes as follows: