Brahms Quote by Hans von Bulow

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

— Michael Tilson Thomas

For years, my favorite composers had been Monteverdi and Bach. Then I began to rediscover the 19th century, see it from another perspective.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most…

— Charles Gounod

I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play…

— Glenn Gould

“It was Haydn and Mozart who really cracked the sonata, but it was Beethoven who reinvented it, just as he reinvented the symphony. Bach…

— Rachel Joyce

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

— Sun Ra

I've always said there aren't great composers- there are great songs.

— Vicente Fernandez

The thing I realised about composition is, we remember most composers for four bars of music. Four singable bars of music. Pretty much any…

— Bryce Dessner

“In every field, even the most eminent creators typically produce a large quantity of work that’s technically sound but considered unremarkable by experts and…

— Adam M. Grant

There are three Bachs. Johann, Sebastian and Offen.

— Victor Borge

I think J.S. Bach's music stands among humankind's greatest accomplishments. For me, Bach's music is not only as good as music gets, but also…

— Andrew W.K

Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list…

— William Golding