Brahms Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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

“Concert pianists get to be quite chummy with dead composers. They can't help it. Classical music isn't just music . It's a personal diary.…

— Marisha Pessl

“If our cultural lives are sick, it is likely to be an impediment to our spiritual lives. Much popular culture promotes a spirit of…

— Kenneth A. Myers

That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of…

— Elliott Carter

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

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's…

— Frederic Chopin

“At breakfast, I might pass a Brahms symphony in my head. Then I am called to the phone, and half an hour later I…

— Arthur Rubinstein

“One cannot listen to different pieces of music at the same time, a real comprehension of the beautiful being possible only through concentration upon…

— Kakuzō Okakura

When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music.

— Michael Tilson Thomas