Backsides Quote by Ludwig van Beethoven

Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he not been…

— Gail Zappa

After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music?

— Ludwig van Beethoven

If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man.

— Alexander Kluge

His lessons were chock-full of analogies for a variety of musical situations. Those little things were my favorites. 'No . . . that's too…

— Manny Laureano

All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.

— George Gershwin

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

— Gustav Mahler

If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.

— Dave Barry

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

— Vanessa Carlton

George Rochberg once said that 'to be a composer, you need to have fire in the belly, fire in the brain, but most importantly,…

— Michael Hersch

I think every classically trained film composer feels to some extent, maybe on some level, that they took the low road, that they could…

— James Newton Howard

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.

— Shirley Manson

The first characteristic of Rossini's music is speed - a speed which removes from the soul all the sombre emotions that are so powerfully…

— Stendhal