Brandy Quote by James Huneker

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

— Glenn Gould

As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing…

— Michael Hersch

My mother had to explain that one couldn't compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.

— Sergei Prokofiev

My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.

— Sergei Prokofiev

There is no piece of guitar music that has the formal beauty of a piano sonata by Mozart, or the richly worked out ideas…

— Julian Bream

The work of Liszt I most admire is the music he wrote toward the end of his life. This is often music of tremendous…

— Michael Hersch

By the grace of God and with His help, I shall one day be a Liszt in technique and a Mozart in composition

— Bedrich Smetana

Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul.

— Marc Chagall

Music was not invented by the composer, but found.

— Nadia Boulanger

Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin.

— Michala Petri

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

— Agnes Obel