Any Quote by Karen DeCrow

Composers are very individual creatures.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins.

— Hans von Bulow

Mozart for me is the No. 1 composer. His music is not just joy or sadness. It's deep emotion with a touch of lightness,…

— Alexandre Desplat

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

— Michael Tilson Thomas

In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for…

— Karen DeCrow

In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they…

— Karen DeCrow

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

— Ken Hill

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

[Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could translate one…

— Leonard Cohen

I think you can tell a lot from the lives of many of today's great soloists. Their participation and gravitation towards chamber music is…

— David Finckel

My favourite composers are Vishal Shekhar, AR Rahman, Shankar Ehsaan-Loy.

— Bappi Lahiri

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