"Reviewer: 'One of your themes was very similar……" — Johannes Brahms

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• The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost. — Bennett Cerf
• There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is… — George Bernard Shaw
• I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms… — Hugo Wolf
• ...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one… — Arthur Rubinstein
• I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened… — Charles Mingus
• The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or… — George Bernard Shaw
• Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his. — Franz Liszt
• A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of… — Edvard Grieg
• I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played… — Oscar Peterson
• When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy". — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethoven’s. The one by Brahms vies with it in… — Joseph Joachim
• Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time. — Nigel Kennedy

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