Because Quote by Patti LuPone

If somebody says, 'Well, what are your favorite composers?' really, what they are saying is, 'What are your favorite composers apart from Bach?' Because…

— Max Richter

Fortunately, I started very young, so I read music very well. And my favorite composers to play are Brahms and Mozart.

— Condoleezza Rice

Tom Kitt aside - he's in his own category with me, of course - Stephen Sondheim is one of my all-time favorite composers.

— Alice Ripley

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

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

— Michael Tilson Thomas

“Mahler was a poor yea-sayer. His voice cracks, like Nietzsche’s, when he proclaims values, speaks from mere conviction, when he himself puts into practice…

— Theodor Adorno

“When a man, filled with a mixture of reverence and bewilderment, asks, “What on earth does this all mean?”, a child will answer him…

— Gustav Mahler

“To its left stood a transistor radio, which was emitting and indeed had been emitting for some considerable time, a symphonic movement of vaguely…

— Edmund Crispin

Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing through. His voice is deep, then he lifts it…

— Mary Oliver

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great…

— Maureen Forrester

I love Gustavo Dudamel and I love what he does for classical music, and I love what he comes out of, El Sistema and…

— Wynton Marsalis

To be passionate in today's world is not politically correct... Nowadays we are supposed to cope. This was not Mahler's problem. He saw it,…

— Lorin Maazel

He wanted us to play whatever we played in the most characteristic and appropriate style. Even it was the theme from 'The Godfather,' you…

— Manny Laureano

Schopenhauer's thought that Will is insatiable, that once satisfied in one form it must be expressed in new desires, is inherited both by Mann…

— Philip Kitcher

“Most of the people around me yesterday were middle-aged or old. I am used to it, but it never ceases to surprise me how…

— Teju Cole