Learn Quote by Vladimir Horowitz

It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to…

— Daniel Barenboim

“You should all know how to read music. It's as basic to understanding the composer's reaction as knowing how to read words on a…

— Jennifer Laurens

The piano is where everything starts and ends. Everything is based off of it. If you understand that, you wind up understanding a lot…

— Brian Fallon

As a pianist, our particular role is to enter a piece and its logic and create a particular interpretation from our understanding. The most…

— Rafal Blechacz

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's…

— Frederic Chopin

Many classical musicians lack pulse and rhythmical strength and precision, so for us it was very important to acquire and learn those.

— Luka Sulic

I don't think they understand it's as important as math and science. It rounds you out as a person. I think it gives you…

— Marvin Hamlisch

When we work on a piece of music, we'll often read the biographies of the composer and learn about what was going on historically…

— Helene Grimaud

I know a famous violinist who told me he can't compose because he knows too many pieces. So, when he starts thinking of a…

— Natalie Portman

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and…

— John Corigliano

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony,…

— David Ives

I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart.

— Bradley Joseph