Vivaldi Quote by Igor Stravinsky

Even if you are a pianist, your concerto repertoire is very limited compared to what your chamber repertoire would be if you were a…

— David Finckel

Chopin, Schubert, and Liszt had no idea of how to write for the piano.

— Glenn Gould

When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece.

— Gail Zappa

We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.

— Robert Schumann

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

— Neville Marriner

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 said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere.…

— Gregg Allman

'Spring One' probably has only four bars of Vivaldi in it, but it feels like it's all Vivaldi. It's odd. It's a bit like…

— Max Richter

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

— Hector Berlioz

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

— Placido Domingo

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

— Edward Abbey

See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.

— Mel Torme