Virtuoso Abhorred Quote by Thomas Bernhard

“Peterson revealed that he had decided the only way to get attention was “to frighten the hell out of everybody pianistically.”

— Stuart Isacoff

“Although he had certain talents as a musician and a composer, he lacked the charisma or showmanship or whatever it was that made a…

— Nicholas Sparks

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from…

— Milton Babbitt

“Piano Man put up a fight but his resistance was futile. Hell hath no fury like a drunken girl at her bachelorette party in…

— Vicki Lesage

“He knew that the very memory of the piano falsified still further the perspective in which he saw the elements of music, that the…

— Marcel Proust

“I am in love with a pianist, without his piano what is he?”

— Jai Clare

“It was clear that the composer no longer consoled himself with the thought that music could express everything and did not require verbal commentary.”

— Solomon Volkov

“He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that…

— E.M. Forster

“On the other hand, for years I did not listen to Mozart after I was assaulted by the perverse idea that Mozart does not…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“And a man who speaks effectively through music is compelled to something more difficult than parliamentary eloquence.”

— George Eliot

“(musicians always make straight for the piano in anybody’s house, unlike writers, who can ignore a typewriter in the same room forever.)” -- margaret…

— Margaret Harriman

“History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.”

— Michael P. Naughton