Bores Quote by Henry Adams

“He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.”

— Henry Adams

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me,…

— Peter Shaffer

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

— Thelonious Monk

I think there are very few people that I would give the title of genius to, really, but Beethoven unquestionably is one of them.

— Stephen Hough

Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of…

— Frederic Chopin

It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations,…

— George Santayana

That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart.

— E. O. Wilson

Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.

— George Carlin

Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it…

— Smokey Robinson

Just as the great composer is seldom also a great player, so is the great mathematician seldom also a great teacher.

— Christopher Robin Milne

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.

— Anthony Hopkins

To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else…

— Lukas Foss