Book Quote by George Steiner

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

— Agnes Obel

We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.

— Leonard Slatkin

I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with…

— Bayard Taylor

Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a…

— Feist

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

— Placido Domingo

Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from ideally combining…

— Luigi Russolo

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch

— Slavoj Žižek

Architecture is petrified music.

— Felix Schelling

Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners.

— Allan Kozinn

Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up…

— Henri Rabaud

If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

— Nancy Lancaster

How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn't get exposed to.

— Jerry Garcia