Books Quote by William Golding

Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.

— Vanessa Mae

Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.

— Billy Cannon

The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins.

— Hans von Bulow

The thing I realised about composition is, we remember most composers for four bars of music. Four singable bars of music. Pretty much any…

— Bryce Dessner

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

— Sun Ra

I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets…

— Joni Mitchell

Mozart, Beethoven - how can you not want to share them with everyone and anyone? This stuff is of as great importance as the…

— Charles Hazlewood

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

— Michael Tilson Thomas

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

— James Brown

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

— John Edensor Littlewood

John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time.

— Sid Bernstein

My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved to play,…

— Peter C. Doherty