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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… — George Bernard Shaw
• Karen Handel has run a 100 percent negative campaign. — Nathan Deal
• Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very… — George Frideric Handel
• I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that… — Jimi Hendrix
• Handel, to him I bow the knee. — Ludwig van Beethoven
• I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's… — Cecilia Bartoli
• Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb. — Ludwig van Beethoven
• Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion. — George Bernard Shaw
• The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio. — Dave Brubeck
• You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look… — Isaac Mizrahi
• An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words… — James Fenton

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