Big problem Quote by Elliott Carter

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a…

— George Bernard Shaw

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

— George Bernard Shaw

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

— Franz Liszt

So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the…

— Glenn Danzig

I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing…

— Antonio Damasio

Brahms stayed an extra day to hear my [Fifth] Symphony and was very kind ... I like his honesty and open-mindedness. Neither he nor…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great…

— Arthur Rubinstein

After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing…

— Robert Schumann

I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying…

— Hugo Wolf

“Classical music is not really my thing, and I know absolutely nothing about it. If you told me you saw Brendel play Brahms last…

— David Rosenfelt

I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.

— Agnes Obel