Brahms Quote by Nigel Kennedy

If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you…

— Kurt Masur

My teachers said, 'Always keep a Beethoven sonata under your fingers.' I always have. I still play chamber music, and I always play classical.

— Neil Sedaka

A lot of the time in music you get to see the place you play, or around the place you play, but that's it.

— Chali 2na

After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I play a lot chamber music.As for something that's hard for me to play, before I leave this Earth I'm hoping to play Brahms'…

— Condoleezza Rice

It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.

— Leila Josefowicz

Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you're blown away by a particular musician. If I'm playing the Brahms concerto, it's crucial to have a great…

— Joshua Bell

“At breakfast, I might pass a Brahms symphony in my head. Then I am called to the phone, and half an hour later I…

— Arthur Rubinstein

I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come…

— Daniel Barenboim

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a…

— George Bernard Shaw

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper…

— David Ogden Stiers

When you play in smaller places with a smaller symphony, sometimes there's a difference in quality. Sometimes it's murderous. Sometimes it's real torture. Other…

— Anne Murray