Bach Quote by Vladimir Horowitz

I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa.

— Eleanor Bron

I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.

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— Benson Boone

“I slept without a Normison but with nutty dreams that included Bronwyn Bishop as a circus dwarf.”

— Bob Carr

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— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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— Donna Tartt

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— Allegra Goodman

I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music…

— I. M. Pei

Hilda and I slept alongside each other fully dressed, head to feet.

— Stanley Spencer

a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.

— Alice Foote MacDougall